So after such a cinematic feast on the weekend, it’s back to the film equivalent of junk food, and Sisu (hyped-up as it had been by a few of my friends) was… OK.
The whole splitting the story into chapters, referenced by big title cards every ten minutes or so, did the film no favours - as it’s hard to demarcate any action if nothing all that much has happened - and it made the whole thing feel like a…
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A Real Pain 2024
After a few weeks of consisting on largely cinematic junk food, to see such marvellous artistically reaffirming films as The Brutalist and A Real Pain on consecutive days is a feast.
Beautifully written and performed, with every aspect so well judged, this film had me laughing - a lot - but also had me in tears on more than one occasion. Small and low-key in all the ways that The Brutalist was large and a lot, they felt like great…Translated from by
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The Brutalist 2024
With the shuttering of our local picture-house, I did not expect to get the chance to see this on the big screen, and whilst I still did not enjoy the experience of The Brutalist in all its full 70mm glory, I’m so grateful to have seen it at the cinema.
Described by so many as epic, and whilst I guess it is in its scope, for me The Brutalist felt far more poetic and intimate - at times uncomfortably so…
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Moana 2016
Today marks the momentous day where the almost 5-year old watched this film for the fiftieth time. She’s seen it so often that she sometimes thinks she is Moana. I’ve watched it so many times that I feel like Heihei.
Impossible to give a rating too, for however much I wish that the child watched a wider variety of movies, I’ll surely miss those sofa times when she settles on other pursuits.Translated from by
