Screenwriter/novelist. 'Real Gods Require Blood' - premiered in competition at Cannes Critics' Week.
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Queer 2024
Things I dug about QUEER (2024):
• The anachronistic soundtrack: dolorous Nirvana and piano Prince
• The agonising awkwardness, abjection and humiliation of desire: Craig’s Lee always being a beat too early/late
• Related to the above: the pathetic predatory lust of sustained infatuation, blinding Lee to objective reason. Tfw you know that you need someone far more than they need you but you are far too gone to make a dignified retreat…Things I didn’t dig:
• The slack,…
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Se7en 1995
Still fairly naff, mechanical and hollow. It has a Saturday-morning cartoon logic to it, which well serves the morbid dream atmosphere; but it makes the actual investigative mystery, the backbone of its narrative progression, frequently laughable. Despite immaculate grading and production design, absolutely none of it feels real or lived in. There's no specificity or idiosyncrasy. A flashy, vapid, perfectly anonymous MTV sheen diminishes every component of the world. I don't believe for a second that any of these characters exist beyond their screen time. Fun twist, though.
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd 2019
Precious to see a small British film that isn't appallingly directed. No dumb blocking, midweek TV drama set-ups or shallow-focus twaddle. This impish potboiler's never less than entertaining, and elevated well beyond the sum of its parts by a superb score and said direction. Nods to Don Siegel's THE BEGUILED, to FUNNY GAMES and, of course, plenty of ol' folk horror gems. Shame about all the narration.
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