I’ve never really felt exhausted after watching a movie before until this one. Gaspar Noé somehow packed the most viscerally unnerving viewing experience I’ve ever had, into such a deceivingly compact runtime. And I’m honestly really cool with the fact that it wasn’t any longer. At its core, Climax purely consists of chaos, and the immersive nature of the film is skillfully intentional and so damn relentless.
Even thought it’s been on my radar for a while now, I went…
After seeing Sean Baker’s The Florida Project pretty recently, I was really eager to see another one of his works. As expected from Baker, Anora was another film based around the life of someone in the margins. Someone who’s seen, but almost never in a complete sense. And for better or worse, Anora, more so than his other works, challenges us to fill in the gaps between the seen and unseen.
Transience is the word that’s staying in my head…
For the better part of a decade I had been hearing about the tweets that inspired Zola. At one point I even started to read through the thread, but since it was so many years past the initial buzz, there was basically no incentive for me to stay locked in for damn near a hundred and fifty posts. Still, from what I’d heard and from the bit I did read, I knew the story was a wilddd one. It took…
As someone who spent the first 8-ish years of my life growing up in Florida, this movie unlocked some of the most potent feelings of nostalgia I’ve felt in a veryyy long time. I don’t relate in the slightest to the circumstances the children in this movie dealt with, but man, those sunsets. Those rainstorms coming out of nowhere, and then chasing the rainbows that followed…Being completely unaware of the fact that you’re existing in what most people would consider…
