Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
In the couple of days that it has been since I have watched this film it has grown on me. When I first watched it I was somewhat put off by its idiosyncrasies, but as I sat with it I grew more fond of it.
Dogtooth is engaging primarily because of what is left unsaid, the story isn't told but rather inferred, the framing of scenes at times obfuscates rather than elucidates.
There is much that I feel and think about the events of the film, but I feel that to explain my thoughts would do a disservice to it.
The innocent way in which this entrancing documentary opens does nothing to betray the strange way in which it comes to its conclusion. Though a thoroughly competently made film, it's not the quality of the filmmaking that makes this documentary worth watching. David Farrier and Dylan Reeve managed to construct a compelling piece of narrative out of a story that seems entirely stranger than fiction. A deep dive into Competitive Endurance Tickling turns into a much larger story. I am…
If there is anything that you can be sure of when watching a Martin McDonagh film it's that the dialogue will be quite sharp and darkly funny, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is no outlier in this regard. The conversations were written to be as tight and quick-witted as possible, but the characters that are speaking these words still manage to come across as complex and flawed - a testament to the quality of the script.
In Three Billboards we…