Director Coralie Fargeat has said that she is generally inspired by David Cronenberg, David Lynch, and John Carpenter, and in this derivative film she got permission to use Richard Strauss’ Thus Spoke Zarathustra, a song most people will recognize from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Unlike her idols, Fargeat has nothing important to say to you, unless you enjoy glib and spineless gestures towards the obviously deranged and complex issue of how modern society perceives women. A movie so empty and…
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La Chimera 2023
Who is less honest, Arthur the hollowed out grave-robber in mourning, or Italia, the tone-deaf singer/servant/mother to secret children?
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
This film started on the walls of the theater. I was aware of it there, but I was unphased at first. An hour later, it had crawled its way across the floor, up my leg, and under my shirt. It was an insect of hopelessness.
And then it ended. Most of the other films I’ve seen led me to believe it would not end when it did, but I realized a moment before the credits began that it would in…
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Nomadland 2020
“Is Nomadland about grief?” I ask myself. “Is she in hell, or in limbo?” I had never considered that limbo might be where we go when we grieve. Maybe a state of spiritual purgatory - similar to spiritual nirvana or heaven - is something that we experience in our waking lives, not the afterlife. Chloé Zhao’s third movie is like A Ghost Story or a late 90’s Modest Mouse song:
“I drove around for hours, I drove around for days.…
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