The big emotional moments didn’t quite land for me, which isn’t great, considering that this is a melodrama. But: it’s gorgeous, wonderfully acted, and Mysius continues to remind me of Denis, which is quite something.
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Paradise: Love 2012
You don’t realize how few movies have rigorously motivated mise-en-scenes/blocking until you see one in which this is breathtakingly the case. Stylized repetitions and patterns—making brilliant use of foreground, midground, and background—combine with documentary-like naturalism to present a realistic world governed by structures that the characters easily could but won’t see, don’t want to see. Fucking masterpiece and I can’t wait to watch the other two Paradise films.
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Under the Silver Lake 2018
I was giddy with the first half, maybe even two-thirds, but as the explanations started coming and the bloated runtime kept progressing, a lot of steam was lost. This has a lot going for it: the anachronistic cognitive dissonance (in the best way) of the Hitchcock-like score; the always transparent homages (speaking of Hitchcock), some of which, like the Ethiopian jazz song featured prominently in Broken Flowers, only hit me on a nagging subconscious level until I could investigate after…
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