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Luca strikes again with a very sexy film about…(checks notes)…tennis? A visual feast that got me hype for a sport I neither care or know much about. Some of the camera work in this is so inventive and unlike most of what we’ve seen from Guadagnino previously….it has me excited for repeated future viewings.
We’re provided a Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross score that totally fucks…and helps to blur the line in the narrative between where tennis ends and sex begins. These…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Intentionally slow-paced, with beautiful haunting imagery (I can’t stop thinking about that mesmerizing fire sequence on King Hale’s property, or the tribal drum scene that closes out the film) that I expect will linger. The whole film is an indictment of racism and the kind of harrowing evil that derives from dehumanizing a race different from your own. I would call the events depicted here unimaginable, but since it’s based on true events and there are so many examples (the…
This gal is having complete conversations with her dead friend. I feel like she may need some slightly more intensive therapy than a weekly support group.
Somehow, I feel like WALL-E would be better as an animated short. The first thirty minutes is damn near perfect…then it quickly falls off and never quite recaptures the charm of the first act. It’s still a great watch and better than a lot of animated films, but I don’t really understand the folks who label this as some five star masterpiece.
The only thing I feel confident about after watching this is that the FBI don’t know shit about who stole this art. Also, this doc was pretty repetitive in parts...instead of a four part series, it probably should have been a two part series.
A man comes upon an orphan kid in the road and takes the vagrant to the authorities. They essentially force the man to endure a long ass road trip with this random lost child. Basically my worst nightmare.
