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Kinds of Kindness 2024
I admire Yorgos Lanthimos for his creative instinct, but in each of his films there is a distinct, lazy disharmony--maybe even an unwilling contradiction--between idea and action.
The worlds Lanthimos crafts are vivid and bright, even at their bleakest. Their inhabitants operate on a plain of unhumanity that we would not be wrong to call sociopathy when contrasted with our own. But the depth of these worlds seem to rely on that contrast alone. It is what we feel ought…
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Challengers 2024
If the most boring, annoying people in the world's only concerns were tennis and making each other miserable, they would be much easier to ignore. Instead I watched a whole movie about them.
I do hope other movies deploy soundtracks the way that Challengers has. Some very inventive and unusual uses of music throughout, masking the otherwise vain triviality of it all.
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The Worst Person in the World 2021
Julie is a very boring character that we are told over and over again is actually very wonderful. The title winks at us, her boyfriends tell us overtly, her mother lets us know, and her father lets us know by /not/ letting /her/ know. But outside of being told, we never see any semblance of her greatness. She veers off the doctor exit of the good-girl-expressway to become an artist, but never really makes any art, nor seems to really…
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Sorcerer 1977
Victor Manzon, played by Bruno Cremer, lives in luxury. Over a gourmet meal at a high society restaurant, his wife shares with her friend that lobster tastes better when it comes from colder climates, because they are cold blooded animals. She knows this because her husband's father was a fisherman. Victor Manzon isn't paying attention to their conversation, even though he's sitting right next to them. He's worried that that the high end lifestyle he hustled and lied his way…
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