It's fine - a pretty meh love story which is saved by the chemistry of the lead actors. I thought the non-linear timeline added something and didn't just feel like a gimmick.
The most interesting part was the idea of how you want to be remembered after you're gone, and I loved the final scene for this, but it felt more like an afterthought at the end of the movie which was a shame
5/5 Andrew Garfield dating sim tho
"We often imagine that a good man does good, but it’s an illusion. A real good man doesn’t know what is good or bad, he’s simply open to everything, without a filter"
This quote from Rohrwacher is clearly the thesis statement of the film. The constant saintly/religious imagery combined with Lazzaro's doe-eyed stare, make him an easily loveable, "good" man. But, this conflation of "loyal" and "good" is not something I'm convinced by. We see a handful of times during…
This film answers the age old question of what if Patrick Bateman was a nationalist in 1930s Czechoslovakia
