Dumb movie. I THOUGHT I must have fallen asleep various times because this was so incoherent. Man I don't want to be that person who writes reviews only when they want to complain about something but apparently I am. I had the worst week and needed a good movie to make this the week I saw the great Emilia Pérez instead of the week I cry-screamed at a bus driver and spat against his windshield for not letting me take…
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Stop Making Sense 1984
When I was a teenager I wanted to be in a band so bad that I learned to play bass, because no one else wanted to play bass. Recently learned that this is how Tina Weymouth got to be part of the Talking Heads! Anyways, we weren't that tight most of the time but when we really locked in with each other I remember those to be moments of absolute bliss. Moments where you just sail, just flow, where the…
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019
This film to me is less of an experience and more of a place: a place of deep comfort. It is a shrine of serene beauty and I kneel before it.
In a film where the act of painting, of conserving a certain moment and redeeming it from its premature death takes such a central role, it makes sense for the scenes to present themselves as "tableaux vivants", as visual constellations that could be static images in their own right.…
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Blonde 2022
Why, why did they have to pretend this was a movie with a serious artistic ambition, a slightly surreal biopic, a vessel for critique even? It would be easier to accept the sexualized cruelty and the almost hilariously explicit voyeurism if it were porn, possibly even to enjoy the aesthetic.
But the way "Blonde" wants to "have a morality about it" (Dominik really told Vulture that) and at the same time hijacks the most sensationalist, most misogynistic and most unfavourable…
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