I usually adore Guadagnino but this is largely a miss for me. I enjoyed the style and the coolness of the images and the score and I appreciate that someone just went and celebrated those unapologetically. But I couldn’t really bring myself to care about any of the characters. Clearly, it was all interesting enough for me not to fall asleep after a very long and tiring workday though, and I mean that as a genuine compliment.
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Napoleon 2023
Feels old-fashioned as a biopic but it kept me entertained through all of its almost 160 minutes. Also, great sound.
I didn’t initially like that they pinched a few tracks off Martin Phipps’ score for the BBC War & Peace series though - feels a bit cheap to me for a Ridley Scott movie to use music from another film/series, especially if it’s so recognisable. But it is an amazing soundtrack and come to think on it, I feel Napoleon actually used it better, so I can’t be mad at it.Translated from by -
American Fiction 2023
This was funny, I smiled and smirked through the entire film.
I’ve worked in publishing for almost 10 years, in different countries and languages, I love it, I hate it, and this film is overall probably one of the truest film representations of the industry I’ve seen. But that’s really not very difficult when you’re benchmarking against films that suggest that one day you can be an intern and the next day you’re fiction editor. Or that someone “fannying around…
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