I keep coming back to the warm space that cinema offers with dilated pupils and an embrace that engulfs me whole.
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Heathers 1989
Knew nothing about the plot going in and I was taken aback in the most positive way by the explicit dialogue and dark subject matter. Winona Ryder is impeccable in the role of Veronica, a popular girl who wants to break free and condemn her peers for their shallowness, but gets caught up in a dangerous and deadly game with mysterious travelling hottie JD (Christian Slater). 30+ years on, the film is eerily prescient and poignantly relevant. It addresses issues of bullying and self harm with an acerbic tone that feels truly unique, honestly entertaining and ultimately weirdly heartwarming.
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Midsommar 2019
I dreaded watching this film for years until today. A provocative and squirm-inducing piece. The bright, bucolic setting rapidly reveals its sinister side in beautifully composed shots. The result is fascinating, often hard to watch. The direction is masterful, the pace measured enough to let the viewer bathe in discomfort, hypnotising us to glimpse at what follows—often an unexpected WTF moment. Yet this isn't cheap thrills for thrills' sake, it's a visceral study of grief in which Florence Pugh utterly commands the screen. Brilliant work, which I will NEVER watch again.
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Suspiria 2018
Due to very minimal distribution here in France, I watched Suspiria in a suitably dingy small screen near Strasbourg's impressive cathedral, on an almost full moon, at 22.00 (the only screening available).
I can safely say that I've not been this disturbed, enthralled, fascinated and repulsed by a film in a long time.
One critic referenced Aronoffsky's "mother!" above but contrary to that positively nihilistic film, this one contains a poetic life force that is to reckoned with.
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At War 2018
Powerful and direct.
We are entered "in medias res" into the action of the employees of a factory in France, setting up to contest and fight the sudden closing down of their workplace due to its delocalisation.
As in Stéphane Brizé's previous film La Loi du Marché (The Measure of a Man, 2015), Vincent Lindon shines as the group's leader and, as the only professional actor in the film, he guides his costars with his usual generosity and warmth. As…
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