Bit of a free day today and I decided to start it with this for some reason. Spent the entire back half with a wobbly chin and frequent bouts of tears. Genuinely feels great.
Don't know what else to say really other than I truly think this is one of the greatest films ever made, just perfect top to bottom.
Just some really solid Alexander Payne with a truly lovely set of performances therein, not much more to say or that could or should be asked for really.
First rewatch after seeing it three or four years ago. It was my first Villeneuve post-Arrival (that I'd already rewatched two or three times by then) and it kinda blew me away.
What's sad about seeing this is that once directors go big, they never seem to go back. I feel like Villeneuve is stuck in that big scifi thing now, and we'll never see another Prisoners from him again, the same way we won't see another Prestige from Nolan.
Ah well.
This is a big one, perhaps the Mann I've been looking forward to the most during this journey through his filmography, and in recent weeks I've actually started to feel nervous about rewatching it.
The theoretical regular reader of my ~reviews might wonder why I didn't save this til second-to-last the way I said I would, and the reason is simple: I just got a new telly, and I've been choking to watch this for ages, so I thought what…
