It's competency porn from all sides, inside the film itself and everything you can glean about the making of it while watching.
I'll always prefer a spy movie about normal spy stuff — watching people over a period of time and double-checking claims — but I especially like how much of this is about having coworkers over for dinner.
(Interesting to think about Fassbender doing The Killer, The Agency, and this, he's finding new flavors and purer distillations of his…
I'm most drawn to the creatures and the sentimentality of it. That being willing to watch someone die is the most romantic thing you can do, an essential component of loving someone. That the Creepers all stand up to see Mickey off once they rescue him from the cave (that they can all roll up Samus-style, too).
The rest of the movie is undeniably messy, seemingly reaching an emotional conclusion before it just ends for what feels like a really…
Two things I’d like to get out of the way:
Elle is a Christmas movie 🙂
Isabelle Huppert standing in front of a poster for The Last of Us is an indelible filmic image
Really amazing. I was very seriously expecting to not like this at all around an hour in, but boy do things come together once you realize what’s going on. There are some great lines, but I’d say outside of Huppert’s performance, the power of this film…
