A quirky film in a way I wasn't prepared for. It shifts between the kind of morose existentialism you'd expect from Bergman and a sort of a snake oil medicine man farce. There are moments that are really great, such scenes with the love potion or the final trick, but even those felt very incongruent and unsatisfying in relation to the rest of the film. It's a film that ultimately gets somewhere satisfying, but we have little to grasp on to along the way.
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Awesome Runaway!! 2015
The acting, choreography, and effects aren't spectacular, but it's very ambitious and to their credit they pull off the Birdman-style one shot. There's not really a story here, just 7 minutes of action with sort of a flat punchline at the end.
Still nice to see something original coming out of New Caledonia!
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This film takes a complex, interesting, not-often talked about subject and turns it into rabble rousing.
The filmmaker is SO unlikable and wedges himself in this film so much. The writing is poor. I should have guessed it would be corny based on the title"Cow-spiracy"... but there is no redemption for puns like "scared the emojis out of them". The filmmaker presents all of his interviews in a corny, mean-spirited GOTCHA-style (even though the people on camera stand behind their…
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 1999
His astounding clothing took the biscuit
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