It’s very tempting to go full Letterboxd and say Chloe Sevigny buck naked playing Oni is a vibe. But then, that combination of aesthetics andunseriousness is what’s great and eye-rolling about this movie, a gorgeous, sexy, chic thriller, marred by the glum suspicion that the director thinks it has an important message. I loved watching it, but was left with the disappointed feeling one gets when a fashion model starts explaining their politics.
It’s full of beautifully composed shots of…
Family movie night.
The movie’s early commitment to elegantly storyboarded wordless sequence had me worried that this would be the sort of movie that earns critical kvelling while boring kids. The opening was, for me at this particular viewing, a fascinating demonstration of how something that works perfectly well in theory can lose an audience– a simple chickens vs farmers gag was played too dark, too slow, and we were all observing its cleverness without ever being caught up.
But…
I was so, so looking forward to this after seeing the trailer, and then I… I think I hated it?
I’ve waited two weeks to write this to see if my feelings changed, and maybe that was a mistake because it’s gotten enough into The Discourse that I’m starting to remember it more as a subject than an experience, which is unfair– the actual experience is the best part, with the groovy color and goofy wigs and a legit funny…
This one-note, tediously simple minded ideological autofellatio is what Film Twitter thinks is a good movie?!?!?!? I kept thinking maybe Marta (or better yet, her mom) would be a criminal mastermind and that would at least be funny.
It's notable, I guess, for how many of current criticism's pathologies are on display here. The flashbacks are structured to ensure that viewers are never the slightest bit confused or uncertain regarding plot details; can't have any confusion about plot in a…
