What a strange, misshapen piece of cinema. A highlights reel of Napoleon's life clumsily threaded together by a perverse, psycho-sexual Lanthimos-lite power dynamic & punctuated by some glorious battle scenes. Not a Great Movie, but I'm kind of here for it.
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Scarface 1983
Often viewed as one of the holy trinity of modern gangster epics, De Palma's Scarface is an entirely different beast to Scorcese's Goodfellas or Coppola's Godfather trilogy.
Scorcese used his lead Henry Hill as a cipher through which to explore the complex and contradictory sociological dynamics of organised crime. Coppola's trilogy used the multi-generational rise and fall of a criminal enterprise to place the mafia within the context of perceived societal and moral decline.
De Palma on the other hand…
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Carlito's Way 1993
In many ways the shy Yin to Scarface's brash Yang, Carlito's Way aspires to be an introspective, contemplative piece of cinema telling a powerful story of a man trying to escape his nature. Ultimately however, despite a strong Al Pacino performance and a scene stealing Sean Penn, the film fails to transcend its B movie trappings, not least due to the cliched dialogue and Carlito's exposition laden, eye rollingly cheesy voiceover.
Where the film succeeds is in its set pieces.…
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