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Probably Arnold’s most spiritually and emotionally mature film. This had potential to be one of her best, but the more fantastical elements and heavy handed metaphors really started to lose me in the end. I get that she was trying to juxtapose her typical unwavering commitment to realism with those moments, but they sorta just end up undermining it instead.
This looks and sounds great though. Super immersive handheld cinematography and sound design.
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Insanely creative and ambitious, but I can only handle this type of cartoony slapstick in very small doses
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★★★★★ Watched 12 Aug 2024
Altman’s masterpiece somehow feels both effortless and meticulously crafted. His naturalist approach reaches its absolute apex here; conversations overlap as we wander from room to room, shots find characters beginning & ending arcs in the same take. His trademark improvisational style is as present as ever, but it’s hard to ignore the control and attention to detail needed to command an ensemble of this size; everything perfectly choreographed, loose but never sloppy.
Importance is placed on human complex’s and motivations rather…
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I refuse to participate in any of the intellectual discourse that Coppola is so desperately begging for here. Absolute garbage fire. He obviously read a pseudo philosophical text or two back in the 70s (he even tastelessly name drops Marcus Aurelius three times in a row lol), grasped the most surface level themes possible without retaining any of the nuance or depth, and then said “Hey, let me try that”. Mix that with an interest in the Roman Empire and…
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