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West Side Story 2021
In the contemporary remake, there are typically three purposes: the modern retelling (Romeo + Juliet) the gritty reimagining (True Grit) or the cultural takeover (Oldboy, Let the Right One in). Spielberg is making a move here that is characteristic of new Hollywood, but subtly unnerving.
The 1961 version of West Side Story is unabashedly theatrical through every element of the production - the lighting, the soundtrack, the set design (albeit with some sequences shot on location). Spielberg opts to shoot…
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Dune 2021
Dune comes along in a special time in Villeneuve’s catalogue in which his tropes have been explored and analysed, leaving his contemporary work a reshuffling, and refocusing of his prior obsessions onto a new canvas. Many other contemporary directors can suddenly become stale and comfortable, only to erupt hidden jewels infrequently (Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson come to mind) but each new Villeneuve project is a reaching out of ideas instead of a pulling back in.
The consequence is that…
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Personal Shopper 2016
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
‘Is it just me?’
Initially from a first glance, Personal shopper could be a film viewed as a deeply diverting expression of a character suffering from grief. In the times after loss, everything is amplified. Tensions run high, our characters our questioned, indubitably the powerful feelings of sadness and depression come to the fore, but so does reflection. The urge for the psyche to try and manifest rationally the impossibility of death springs forth a fountain of metaphysical questions. Perhaps…
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