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The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005
I revisit a furious, broken young man with mussed hair and a manual talent that transforms him; I also see the physicality and suffering of a father-not-father. If Audiard obviously saw James Toback's Fingers, he certainly didn't miss Leos Carax's Mauvais sang and its relationship with music (the 1986 film brings in David Bowie and Sergei Prokofiev, and the 2005 film the Kills and Johannes Brahms).
It is precisely by narrating a profoundly neurotic character that the camera takes inspiration…
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Nosferatu 2024
It is a waste that the philologist filmmaker, the daring archaeologist of images, has become so sterile in a very short time. It is a shame that some good ideas are included (but only mentioned) for the purpose of being discussed in short or senselessly long 'reviews' on the Internet. It is a shame that the cinematic narrative is crushed by vulgar mannerism. It is a shame that Eggers is such a cinephile that he does not understand the first…
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The Lighthouse 2019
A strange object that Robert Eggers fills with multiple suggestions: the scene of the ancient Greek theatre; the use of actors who find themselves in a married couple's relationship; the thematisation of the gaze through an eye peering/peeping into a slit (a slit of desire); numerous figurative and literary echoes (above all the Bible); Craig Lathrop's marvellous, narrative interiors (note the dirty and used curtains).
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The Watchers 2024
Despite the good technical execution, which, however, never goes beyond those phantasmagorical soft, suspended lights typical of this cinematic wave, the film seems to have been written by three people locked in watertight compartments and at different times, and this has a negative effect on the acting ensemble (completely bamboozled and directed by a director with evidently little experience). In the end, it is a film that is too strained to show (often with sloppy staging) and to explain, and when it decides to be a little more subtle, it suffers from its poverty of writing.
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