It was very long. So long. I wasn’t bored at all but it was just real real long. I appreciated the callback to classic filmmaking. Martin surely shows us how it’s done. It made me wonder if this type of cinema and storytelling will die off. I hope not.
I found it interesting that Martin Scorsese felt emboldened to tell this story. That said, if he hadn’t told it, it probably wouldn’t have been told for a very long time…
A study of the female experience…written and directed by men….
The best film I’ve seen all year tbh. When Emma Stone won best actress for La La Land in 2016 I thought it was undeserved, but her performance in Poor Things justifies her Oscar status. She may very well be the Millennial Meryl Streep.
Every opportunity to callback to German Expressionist cinema was taken. The decision to shoot the first scenes of the film in high-contrast black and white with…
It was like watching a very pretty cliche. The movie could have ended 40 minutes before it did. There were many scenes included for the sake of provocation rather than for plot or story. Did Barry Keoghan really have to fuck the dirt…? The bathtub scene drove that point home, didn’t it?
The beginning is Call Me By Your Name the series. The end is a Sam Levinson fever dream. Jacob Elordi is a God amongst men…to look at —…
