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Asteroid City 2023
What does it all mean? Honestly, who cares when it looks so utterly beautiful and everything happens so fast you have no time to think about it. The cast is eye wateringly A list and regular Anderson collaborators are joined by new devotees to the cult of Wes. The deadpan humour and pathos of Johansson and Hanks were my standouts. And who wouldn’t want to part of this? It’s brimful of style, rigorous cinematic technique and stories within stories. But…
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Triangle of Sadness 2022
Well that was a trip! Unhinged and deranged in parts, with some utterly gross and laugh out loud moments in the mid section. The beautiful briny sea sticks it to the (obscenely rich) man and the man brings it all back up again. Woody Harrelson is given free rein as the raging alcoholic, Marxist ship’s captain hamming it up in a delicious double hander with a Russian billionaire, all played out to hilarious effect over the ship’s PA system. Too…
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The Whale 2022
If Aronofsky’s intention was to illustrate that humanity, kindness and love will trump physical appearance and lifestyle choices then he failed. But I don’t think that was his intention. I think he wanted us to stare, open mouthed and disgusted at Charlie’s massive, bulk, while collectively judging his lack of self discipline and personal responsibility, Charlie is immobilised by shame as well as his obesity and Aronofsky’s movie is part of the ‘body shaming’ process. There is nothing new in…
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Living 2022
Here I go again with love, loss and connection….this was a shining example of my go to movie triumvirate in action used to heartbreaking, life affirming effect. There were echoes of The Remains of the Day in the buttoned up emotional repression of post war England, but where that movie left most things unsaid, Living took us on a determined journey to give life meaning by explicit acts of love and service. Nighy’s performance is a masterpiece. A man at…
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