Watched this after discovering, and loving, Berberian Sound Studio a couple days ago and I'm completely blown away. Peter Strickland is making movies that I would have never imagined could even exist.
This one is super thematically dense but never gets bogged down thanks to Strickland's incredible clarity of vision. No wasted frame, no unnecessary exposition. And you get SO much to chew on. The relationship between artist and subject, artist and themselves, the tension inherent in creative collaboration, critique…