This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This film, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s performance in it, live up to the hype — as do the rest of the cast and the cinematography. As other reviewers have pointed out, you don’t always realize how much authentic, sharp-edged, real humanity is missing in popular media until you watch something like this that reveals what a pale imitation we are often fed.
Sometimes there is no way to explain why a person is the way they are. Sometimes, even if we…
First time in a cinema in a year, an experience unfortunately wasted on this drivel. I know there were few films to choose from in 2020, but this won the César for best film, a fact which fills me with utter despair. A blind man yelling “un handicapé va pas en prison” 25x and walking into walls is the best we can do in 2021? And a socially inept man stalking a colleague he “loves” (in a Love Actually sense,…
I guess it’s my fault for thinking that a biopic of Leonard Bernstein would be a biopic of Leonard Bernstein?
At no point was I able to think about anything but how badly Bradley Cooper wanted us to know how closely he’d studied his source material. I don’t love biopics in general because I often feel like they want us to interpret physical verisimilitude as artistic value, but this one doesn’t even really posit a cursory understanding of who these…
