This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Me hace un poco de gracia la reacción del público hacia la película, más que nada porque siento que todo el mundo recién se da cuenta que Audiard es malo y utiliza temas sociales como escudo (véase Dheepan).
Bueno, todo el mundo excepto Cannes, Sight and Sound y la Academia por lo visto. No sé por qué no me sorprende, aunque los de Cannes cayendo en la misma trampa dos veces al igual que cuando le dieron la Palma de…
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The good thing about Coppola is that he is insane enough to do anything for the film he wants to make.
The bad thing about Coppola is that he is insane enough to do anything for the film he wants to make.
I expected weirdness with some kind of entertaining value, given the type of reception that the film was getting as incoherent or incompetent. What I didn't expect was Coppola pontificating what at best…
People in precarity finding love and happiness in a decaying world. Nothing robs us from our humanity
The leaves in fall, which are either falling in a season where the cold lurks or are being blown by the wind, allude to those fleeting at the mercy of the wind over times of decay, and by chance or fate (because the wind is fate) are able to meet one like them, they are able to (and deserve) to be found
Also, an absolutely adorable, whimsical and fun movie
Far edgier than I remember, I assume because of Schrader's influence. The film pretends to portray Jesus's conflict between being the son of God and the son of man, but some of the scenes, like when he comes back from the desert with arms crossed, or when he shows up to free people from their demons in the valley in slow motion, only semble to portray Jesus as one of those hardened protagonists in Schrader's other scripts. Magdalene's scenes as…
