This excellent documentary, about French feminism in the film industry (and outside of it), made me think a lot about the lines between how bad things were in the 1970s, and how (in a lot of ways) not much better they are now. (I'm thinking specifically about Adèle Haenel & what she's been going through right now.)
And why am I not surprised that Jane Fonda's French is pretty great? (Wait, she was married to Roger Vadim. That's going to help. Never mind.)
A solid short version of the classic tale, from an era where film editing and pacing were things that were still being worked out.
Yes, they could have taken three or four minutes out of the middle of this, but the two main actors (James Cruze & Florence La Badie) are absolutely fine, and complaining about length in a 12 minute film feels a little gauche.
Literally every 30 seconds, for the entire run of this movie, there was a moment where something completely bonkers happened that made you rethink everything that came before. This film is the alpha & omega of cinema in 92 incestuous, mistaken identity-packed, irredeemably insane minutes. When the all-nude WWII gas chamber sequence is just dropped in in the middle, honestly at that point I just kinda thought to myself, oh, hell, why not.
There's murderers bumping into other murderers while the…
Parasite starts as a fun-looking little thriller about a family of grifters and their oblivious marks. But then the heat turns up, and then it finds another gear, and another, and soon everyone in the theater had stopped breathing, waiting for the next moment.
To call it a Korean "Get Out" as written by Dostoevsky kind of sells it a bit short. Hitchcock would be proud.
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