There is an air which surrounds Eggers’ Nosferatu that seems to have saturated its reception, both spoken and unspoken. I won’t hyperbolise by calling it a mixed reception or anything of the sort - I suppose you could call it a general, non-concrete air of deflation or underwhelmingness, a subtle sense of generalised non-fulfilment. The praise is still abundant, but it almost seems suppressed. I get the impression that expectations haven’t been met. I’ve seen many reviews here and have spoken…
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Timbuktu 2014
I understand why this film was so lauded at its time, it being so topical, but I don’t believe that Timbuktu is much more than a well-made and at times (though only really fleetingly) poetic film. Its humanism is at times potent, especially during the football without a ball scene, the lashing scene, and the scene inter-cutting a man dancing on his rooftop with a couple being stoned for adultery; but nevertheless, large elements of this film are simply trivial.…
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972
When I went to book my ticket to see Aguirre, the Wrath of God in a cinema, it happened that the entire theatre was booked out excepting only a few seats on the flanks and the middle seat of the very front row. Given that I would rather break my neck craning it to look at the screen from the front row than have to look at it from an angle, I cut my losses and took the front row…
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