91-100 = ★★★★★
81-90 = ★★★★½
71-80 = ★★★★
61-70 = ★★★½
51-60 = ★★★
41-50 = ★★½
31-40 = ★★
21-30 = ★½
11-20 = ★
0-10 = ½
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Ever After 2018
You start to wonder how it is possible to completely derail something that „easy“ as a „zombie film with a feminist angle“.
Well, if nothing else this proofs that nothing is easy. A coherent story, an understandable cinematic space, sympathetic characters, a general understanding why who is doing what - better take nothing of that for granted, but work for it. Work for it as hard as you can. And if you are lucky, your zombie film with a feminist…Translated from by -
The Naked Island 1960
It was everything I hoped it would be: quiet, beautiful, calm and simple, with one foot in artschool and the other one on dirty ground. After Onibaba and Kuroneko this is the third film by Kaneto Shindô I watched. While the other two are right up my alley with their soft touches of horror, this one really is a minimalist masterpiece – I can say: I WAS on the naked island. (Then again I was quite dozy...) A great late summer flick.
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