Feels a bit more like watching a Neil Breen movie than it does reading a Paul Auster novel. However, I very much enjoy Breen and was never bored by this despite the considerable awkwardness it radiates. Also, while Breen is a bizarrely compelling performer with his exceedingly strange vacuum of traditional charisma, he does not come close to matching the great and only slightly less idiosyncratic David Thewlis in genuine, one in a million charisma. Here is a man who…
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Eat the Night 2024
Unlike Jessica Forever, Eat The Night is an urban youth drama with grit and naturalism rather than arty, compelling distancing techniques, but still exquisitely beautiful and sensitive. What the directors have used as their central motif here is the idea of a fantasy video game universe that informs the world around the characters and, in some important sections, runs parallel to the narrative in evocative ways. It dares to be goofy and sincere. The gay content is also pushed to…
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Frownland 2007
Frownland is more than just the most nerve wracking study of social anxiety ever committed to celluloid, it's nothing less than a massively disorienting schizophrenic shriek from the bowels of some powerfully dissonant, forbiddingly bleary and inescapably banal hellscape of the mind. Packaged in the guise of another New York story about a deeply troubled, underemployed loser, it's also a structurally innovative and insidious descent into madness that, while consistently jarring, is far too immersive to call attention to it's…
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The Moustache 2005
A man shaves off his facial hair but his partner refuses to acknowledge that it ever existed in the first place. Things grow increasingly confusing from there. The plot of La Moustache sounds silly but Emmanuel Carrère's film is much more fulfilling and peculiar than the shaggy dog story at it's core. There are subtle Lynchian dimensions to this tale of a man forced to go with the flow as his reality shifts around him. Phillip Glass compositions bubble up…
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