Entertaining enough, most of the time. Chock-full of cliches and dodgy dialogue though and I am not a fan of the weird grading and focus stuff that Alex Garland uses? Was almost psychedelic without really committing to that. Just looked as cheap as 28 Days Later but nowhere near as good (or cheap).
There are a few great, tense scenes but unlike I’m Still Here, it is the action and not the humanity which takes precedence.
Speaking of, after a…
If you’re wanting to learn about the ins and outs of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 70s then this isn’t the film. The state violence is mostly on the periphery and what takes centre stage is really a story of family, hope and the resilience of a mother.
Fernanda Torres is SO fucking good as mama Eunice Paiva, omg, so contained and powerful. Tour de force mode fr. I was wondering how they aged her so convincingly when they jumped…
My god. I remember playing Like a Rolling Stone for my family when I was 14 at a wedding. No one knew I could sing or play the guitar (with gusto, if mediocrely) and it remains a core memory and the beginning of my obsession with the greatest songwriter of all time. We were a family of fiddlers so this curve ball was perhaps my version of “going electric”! (Yes, it’s all about me).
Okay, it’s a big budget biopic…
Another gem from the golden age of rom-coms based on classical literature. It’s funny how these have aged so much better than pretty much any other genre from the turn of the millennium.
Such a good (and close) adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew with a revisionist-feminist lens of one of Shakespeare’s more eyebrow raising plays with regards to misogyny. And something about the setting of All-American High School elevates the play so much, who’da thunk it.
Lots of…
