A bit underwhelming but I'm used to that with Cassavetes, I at least liked this more than Opening Night and Love Streams. It has its moments, the settings are great and I liked the depiction of gangsters as nothing more than sinister businessmen, Ben Gazzara gives an outstanding lead performance, I just mostly didn't really care about what happened on screen, like so many Cassavetes films, it felt pretty unapproachable to me. The only exceptions so far are Shadows and A Woman Under the Influence.
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The Last Metro 1980
A pretty unspectacular Truffaut piece, maybe too unassuming for its own good, especially when compared to Day for Night, which shares the most similarities in his filmography, from what I've seen. I never thought it was a very interesting film about the holocaust or the war, but it's a pretty good film about theatre and creating art, brought down slightly by an unnecessary love triangle and Gerard Depardieu who I just can't stand watching in anything.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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The film shows the constant circle of violence (unnecessarily mentioned in the "anger begets greater anger" that's the worst scene of the film for me because it explains the point of the film way too blatantly) that can not be stopped by an incapable justice system and police force. The violence that happens (the rape and death of Angela Hayes) is never brought to justice. Neither is…Translated from by -
Goya's Ghosts 2006
The different stories don't work together too well and it almost falls apart in the last third but there are many brilliant scenes that redeem it. Portman and Bardem are as terrific as usual and Skarsgard also gives a really good performance as Francisco Goya. The film portrays this dark chapter in Spanish history very well and while being about as accurate as in Amadeus Forman still delivers a great period drama that's most of the time simply brilliant.
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