Little Women is my wife's film. Not just any version, Gerwig's version.
My wife's "film reviews" normally consist of the eternally damning "It's ok" or "it's alright". We all know the type. The dreaded two word donkey that's supposed to carry your conversation through the rest of dinner, and if you're lucky, to the parking lot. Thank God we're married because I have no idea how we survived dating.
But right out of the theater, she said something new. Something…
In the opening moments of Through the Olive Trees, an essential questioned is posed.
"What's it matter if you film us but don't show it anywhere?"
It's a young woman in a sea of dozens in an informal audition for Abbas Kiarostami's latest film. In keeping with Kiarostami's style, all of them are non-actors. Thus, the question strikes with blunt honesty.
But the woman, probably concerned with simply seeing herself onscreen, doesn't realize the perpiscacity of her own question. To…
Yannick is definitely a clever idea— a one location satirical thriller where Yannick (Raphael Quenard), a disgruntled audience member, takes a stage play hostage because he hates the show. It’s the most elaborate one star review ever.
Yannick is a broad indictment of the toxic state of online discourse. Everyone’s a critic nowadays, which is a hypocritical thing to say on a platform like Letterboxd. But Quentin Dupiex directs his ridicule towards the entitled venom spewed directly on artists.
But…
A period drama framed within an Andrew Wyeth painting, Days of Heaven is an immaculate portrait of the Texas Panhandle.
It’s an almost biblical drama, mirroring the story of Abraham from the book of Genesis. He lies about his wife Sarah. Afraid that jealous onlookers will murder him to steal her away, Abraham presents his wife as his sister. It’s a lie born out of fear and not faith, so God eventually punishes Abraham by driving him out of his…
Two things I've learned from Mickey Mouse's debut:
1.) He's a dick to animals.
2.) He's a dick employee.
But I guess the king of capitalism has to start being a dick somewhere.
The Servant is repressed homosexual desire left to rot.
It's a thriller whose tension lies dormant under the veneer of polite society until it festers into closeted despair.
Joseph Losey serves what initially feels like a British precursor to Parasite (2019), an “upstairs-downstairs” conspiracy. But what begins as a deceptive case of class conflict ultimately evolves into one of sexual struggle.
The relationship between employer and employee, the server and the served, is slowly turned on its head— the need…
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