It took a little while for this to get going at first, but once it did I was properly swept up by it.
The story plays out at first like a fairly generic detective story, that stood out mainly for it's Jamaican setting.
But by ep.4 it really hit it's stride and bloomed into some proper bleak and muscly drama.
It goes to dark places, yet the beautiful writing, drawing from Marlon James, and the ace performances drew me in.…
If Agatha Christie were still around in the 21st century, what sort of things might she be writing about?
Black Bag may be a decent indication, as it takes much of the formula of her manor house mysteries and transplants it to new scenarios in a really fun way.
The scope and stakes may be more global, but this still plays out like an intimate chamber piece. Hyper slick, with characters played more like cool archetypes than believably real people,…
Feeling very much like a TV doc, but looking incredibly pretty on a big screen.
It's a very endearing and moving narrative about our relationship with nature, and the restorative effects of rewilding (and a Jon Hopkins dreamy soundtrack! And beavers!)
But it honestly left me unsatisfied with many questions or issues brushed over. How were the family able to survive when their regular income from arable farming had gone? What impact had it had on the neighbouring farms who…
A true odyssey, what a cinematic ride. Lanthimos takes his distinct style and eye to new heights.
Emma Stone is our tabula rasa, and she is fearless and never better.
And I'm still struggling to put into words why I liked it but didn't love it.
I couldn't help thinking how thematically similar in ways this is to Dogtooth - child-like adults with warped understanding of the outside world discover themselves and the boundaries of human decency and depravity.
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