I don't think my dad regularly chipping in with his commentary on how this was nothing like Paris in the 80s had much to do with me disliking my second Robert Bresson film—just don't think I'm a fan!
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The Monkey 2025
For a film about death, it doesn't make you contemplate your own death. Or contemplate anything much for that matter. But it is very fun and stupid and the monkey character design is perfect.
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The Brutalist 2024
Frequently brilliant, especially in the first half, and extraspecially in the opening five minutes. The music is fantastic, and the composer is Daniel Blumberg! That guy who was in Cajun Dance Party as a 16-year-old!
I was a bit distracted in the second half due to spotting Andy Zaltzman in the audience during the intermission, and then watching him eat a yoghurt out of a glass jar with a metal spoon.
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The Substance 2024
Seriously bloody fun shenanigans that had me thinking about Jekyll and Hyde, and the painfully real parts of the transformations from the Fly. The world they inhabit is reminiscent of Brazil (the film not the country); full of plastic, tasteless people, overindulgence, and a satisfaction with the inane. An assault from start of finish that doesn't leave much room for nuance, apart from the fact that you can't spell 'substance' without 'Sue'. I guess it's a better stage name than Bstanc.
My sympathy levels for either character fluctuated a lot over the 2h20, but Ms Sparkle, why on earth do you have the bathroom from Saw?!
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