Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A unflinching look at the life of this divisive, and internally divided, cult figure. It provokes as much as it amuses and has possibly the most unorthodox romance story in any music doc i have seen at its heart. Hard to imagine everything s/he went through but the film does a great job if conveying genesis’ unique turns of phrase which they use to articulate their varied emotional states and philosophiecala positions . It’s especially compelling in its self-reflex adoption Brion Gysin’s cut up approach of the films editing, images of ‘dreamachine’ recur throughout; perhaps the most appropriate way to capture such a chaotic career trajectory.
Where to begin with this? It seems to distil all the sterile sexual unease of Lanthimos' early work and blends it into a narrative reminiscent of "Orlando", all while hijacking the cinematography of early Spike Jonze skate video while depicting a baroque, yet futuristic nineteenth-century setting, where the affluent navigate through ornate steamships and carriages, amidst trams that gracefully hang from the sky's wires. At the heart of the film's wandering narrative is the protagonist, whose journey towards an Eve-like…