The Fabelmans
Rod Sedgwick

Review by Rod Sedgwick Pro

The Fabelmans 2022

★★★★★

Watched 09 Dec 2022

“All I did was hold the camera, and it saw what it saw.”

The fable of The Spielbergs is his Cinema Paradiso, but that is only a slice of the whole delectable pie.

The next day has dawned after my screening and I’m still dissecting it with my eldest kids who experienced it with me, continually swooning and replaying it all in my head, pulling apart the references from cinema history and Spielberg’s own cinematic body of work. Although he’s dived into his youth, his family and love for cinema in nearly all his films in many ways, never has he worn his heart on his sleeve as he has here, but he does it with such a cinematic eye as opposed to a realistic eye, which of course is the Spielbergian way.

Although the scene of the year is contained within the heart of the film (Antonioni’s Blow Up will be your point of reference to know where my head is at), the one I will watch in isolation over and over again is the final scene, and if you know my adoration for a certain human and his work, you will know exactly why - Goofy-ass grin from ear to ear right through the credit roll and beyond…

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