Wonderfully bonkers. The kind of film one can only make if they’ve been out the game for a while, which is exactly where director Carax was with Holy Motors, his first feature in 13 years, and so the passion is clear to see. Debunks and disapproves of the voyeuristic lifestyle, while still showing it off in glorious French-ified insanity and style.
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Fanny and Alexander 1982
A family finding their own religion.
Apparently the TV miniseries of this spans twice as long almost, which makes me laugh because this trimmed down film version nevertheless has moments of bloat. I think it’s a blessing Bergman made most of his movies stop at the 90 minute mark, because as much as I like the grander story he’s telling here, at least in this film version, there is valuable time wasted (particularly how one young boy in Alexander can…
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Mirror 1975
For a movie that I spent most of my time watching in idle, without feeling too moved by its nadir narrative, with sparsely connected scenes that are meant to echo how this film Tarkovsky at his most reflective, the fact I still found that ending scene with all the choir music hamming it up surprisingly moving. If there’s an opposite term for getting the rug pulled out from under you, then Mirror is like that for me.
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
This feels like it was done by a super-fan of those analogue horror videos you see on YouTube. Just all ambience and all noise - but somehow, no heart.
It’s a vibe film. It is a vibe and it wants so keenly to be perceived as a vibe. Unfortunately the vibe sucks. I don’t like the vibe. The vibe is shit. It’s times like these where I look to the pearly gates of iMDB scores, retract into my populism shell,…
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