My first Korine film, for better or worse. I found the first ten minutes a relentlessly frustrating experience with nothing resembling a coherent style, nor even a NATURAL BORN KILLERS…
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High Fidelity 2000
HIGH FIDELITY is now a period piece: *just* pre-Internet and cellphone ubiquity. I'd forgotten how messy the plotting is. Feels almost like a rambling Desplechin film, with characters capable of…
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Dancer in the Dark 2000
70/100
Revisited for a Scenic Routes column that addresses my major reservation, viz. the musical numbers. Otherwise I pretty much stand by my original Time Out New York review, so…
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To the Wonder 2013
Oddly enough, this put Bresson on my mind and not so much his film work but his writing in "Notes on the Cinematographer" and the way he talks about actors…
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In the House 2013
Ozon going back to Sitcom and the deconstruction of the bourgeois family (aping Teorema, explicitly cited in the dialogue), twinned with another idea about the power of storytelling to transform…