This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Through it, I give you to another
Just a stunning and beautiful movie. I wish every movie was this good. Was this immediately captivating. Was this perfectly paced. Slow, lingering but never for one second dull. Evocative. It’s a two hour foreign film and it never feels like it. I never notice that I’m reading the dialogue. The leads are incredibly expressive and we’re given so much time with them. All I want is to watch people be in love. …
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
There’s Heroin Jazz and then there’s this long line of god awful appropriation and bastardization of Jazz until you get to these soulless iterations of form. Like Kenny G. And, despite the appearance of both Heroin and Jazz, this movie is a soulless, masturbatory load of nothingness.
Its Jazz form meaningless accoutrement.
It plays notes and some of them quite well but I seldom felt anything. And when I did the themes that stirred emotions were promptly dissolved for vague…
Have I seen other movies like this? Sure. Does that change the fact that this was well executed and really enjoyable? Not at all.
John Malkovich was such an insane casting choice and I still can’t believe that was him singing on some of those songs.
I went back and forth on if I thought he was distracting or a hilarious choice. I think the movie in general wasn’t quite as campy as I would’ve liked so his casting seemed…
Unfortunately, this was competently made and not nearly as hilarious and ridiculous as the first. I love Michael Sheen. Excited to see more of him in the series. It’s interesting how this movie took some of the hallmarks of the first but reined them in. The whole thing just felt far more restrained which is a bummer. Haha
Before getting into the review I need to note that there’s a scene where you can hear about 20 seconds of a song. But all you hear is the melody and it’s mostly background. You could easily not notice it.
But if you’re like me and you spent a lot of time in high school alone listening to Elliott Smith, you’ll recognize this melody. Even if you can’t place it. Even if you think wait is this Elliott Smith? No,…
Where to even begin. I loved it. The body horror was gross, inventive, funny. No notes. Surprisingly emotional moments. Or maybe not so surprising given the nature of the story and overall themes.
Dennis Quaid deserves a supporting Oscar nom at bare minimum. Demi Moore was fantastic. An incredibly vulnerable role and she excelled in every regard.
The ending was so viscerally satisfying.
It crossed my mind that I wanted an ending like this for “I Saw the TV Glow”…
