*deep breath* over-wrought and about twice as long as it needed to be. it’s been a long time since i’ve checked the time on my phone mid-film in the cinema (the brutalist’s intermission took me completely by surprise!) but by the end of the third vignette here i was mentally climbing into my pyjamas.
conceptually it’s a fascinating artefact. despite being widely tagged as documentary, it tells a fictional version of events in cuba’s revolutionary decade - four vignettes filmed…
urgent casting request for oscar isaac and jake johnson to play brothers
darker, heavier, and more haunting than expected.
moving beyond the well-worn “btw the internet is fake” influencer narrative, sweat tells the far more nuanced story of sylwia, a popular instagrammer attempting to marble her lucrative fitspo brand with more authentic dispatches on how she’s really feeling - insecure and chronically lonely. this small rupture in the glossy persona, however, opens her up not just to threats of demonitisation but to a wave of interest from those who love nothing more than to…
lovely. shades of let the right one in, only lovers left alive, the jenna ortega multiverse, mia wallace hand-jiving at jack rabbit slim’s. plays interestingly with established vampire lore - by the rules of louis-seize’s world the creatures show marked signs of ageing, albeit slowly, and can apparently biologically procreate. when being turned, it seems to be about leaving them dangling at death’s door to recover into pale undeath as opposed to the traditional exchanging of blood. no mirror tricks, no wooden stakes,…
