This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
**Favourite moments**
*Igor and Anora both have scars under their right eyes.
*Igor essentially presents himself and opens up to Anora by handing over the ring.
*The tonal shift throughout the film as a whole, from ecstasy in love, to confusion and fear, to anger and justification all the way to regret and realization.
*By the end of the film Vanya has become so villainized that we (in the last 10 minutes of the film) have completely forgotten about him,…
The echoes of metal banging in the distance haunt me
Visceral and brutal
Hellishly poetic
…slow, self-indulgent storytelling that mistakes historical accuracy for depth, borrowing Lovecraftian dread, Bergman-esque ambiguity, and Kubrickian coldness without fully committing to any, resulting in a film that feels more like an aesthetic exercise in mood than a fully realized horror experience.
For 'The Lighthouse' - A false facade of avant garde cinema that feels more like a rigid gimmick than a truly profound artistic vision.
This generally applies to the majority of Eggers work but this and 'The Lighthouse' really…
