Araki treats the subject matter of trauma in an unfiltered and sobering light.
The Harold Budd score and use of Slowdive really pushes the film into a territory of the ethereal.
A total masterpiece that will make your body scream.
Araki treats the subject matter of trauma in an unfiltered and sobering light.
The Harold Budd score and use of Slowdive really pushes the film into a territory of the ethereal.
A total masterpiece that will make your body scream.
Eggers has become a little too comfortable in his methods.
He did everything so much by the book that it’s hard not to line up the film against my memory of Herzog’s Nosferatu for comparison.
He brings almost an Ari Aster flavor to opening of the film (Midsommar and Nosferatu have a very similar tone in their introductory scenes), this shock and awe method certainly gives the film a frightening tone but never rises to the same allegorical heights that…