I like the concept but not the execution. Fargeat is swinging for the fences but almost nothing sticks. There’s Kubrick, Hitchcock, Verhoeven, Cronenberg here to name a few, but I was waiting for some real originality to shine through. The blend of all those elements may be subversive, yet it doesn’t feel like they hang on any real bones. By the time Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo score hits, you can hear the sound of a thousand dissertations being written. Yet for…
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Ladies They Talk About 1933
A nice curiosity. The plot is nonsensical and there’s a scene that basically plays over twice in the beginning. But we do get to see a baby Stanwyck swagger across the screen. My personal favorite moment is an incredibly charming and almost insane serenade by Lillian Roth to a photo of Joe E. Brown. It’s almost vaudevillian the degree to which this presumably cheapskate setup works thanks to Roth’s charisma.
Weirdest is that, while most of the picture feels as…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It has long been my firm belief the movies remain unexplored territory. As audiences move on to television, videogames, immersive experiences, whatever…I can’t help but scream into the wind that film hasn’t even begun. We still don’t know what cinema is capable of.
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is the proof of that, for me personally. It is like nothing I have ever seen. Disturbing, richly textured, technically bold, vital viewing. The less you know going in the better.…
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