Considering this is just Al Pacino mooching about cosplaying a leather daddy with almost zero story - it’s mostly milieu and queer fear - it’s pretty decent. Shame it’s half cooked. It could be so much more: Hitchcock with c-rings. But what it is, is worth a look - despite all the problematic problems which are as glaring as they are numerous.
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Yi Yi 2000
Went to a screening today and was – no other word for it – disappointed.
I think it could work like Chekhov or Buñuel as a satire on modern life and bourgeois inertia. But is it doing that, or is it a straight narrative I’m supposed to enjoy? Because I was in no way invested in these characters who do nothing but move through – in the most shallow way – the usual markers of a life lived. Birth, death,…
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The Substance 2024
“Pretty pretty?!”
Films today love to have one clear message that they hammer home until you’re yawning. The faves of the day usually have style but little plot. This an elevator pitch that goes on and on doing the same thing and getting the same response from the audience - ewww. Zero surprises.
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Hotel du Lac 1986
An old lady film set on a Swiss lake. I’m in. Wonderfully arch and restrained also stingingly mean. It’s unreal and real at the same time. A brilliant combination of dreamy escapism and a punch in the teeth with a pocket watch
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