Goddamn. This film is everything.
As badass of a story as you're wanting from a Toshirō Mifune film, and yet also strangely romantic. The female lead actually has some agency, and it even touches on a more complex view on masculinity at times.
I'd like to say that Kobayashi is an underrated filmmaker, but the presence of Harakiri and The Human Condition towering over everything else on the Letterboxd top 250 leads me to believe he's getting recognized at least in some circles.
Anora is a little bit of everything, and further proves that Sean Baker is one of the greatest filmmakers at the moment. He can make us feel whatever he wants us to feel, entertain us, make us laugh or cry, hate or love characters. I also think he chooses people whose stories need to be told the most.
One of the first times in a while where I've had to sit with a film for a day or so before…
What a lovely film. I feel like we dont see many Thai films getting lots of traction even on sites like Letterboxd (other than Apitchatpong Weerasethakul of course), but I fell in love with these characters right away.
A lot less sad than I was expecting it to be, just really heartwarming overall.
In case anyone is wondering: No, nothing bad happens to the cat.
One of the most visually stunning films I've seen in a while. It's rare to ever see an art film that features horror elements like this, let alone in the 1960s.
Herz is able to take an insane cremator and put them in a story during a time period where people were doing completely inhumane things, mixing in real life horrors along with some more fantastical imagery like…
Please stop rating random documentaries as if they were the show.
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Alison Brie's first screenplay is ambitious and original. There is a massive tone shift throughout, but I was hooked the entire time. A lot of people seem to be rating this badly because it "doesn't know what it wants to be" but I disagree. I think it just wants to be a bunch of different things, and I'm here for it.
The characters started out as being instantly lovable, but what is at first an entertaining comedy slowly reveals…
