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A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III 2013
Roman Coppola's strengths lie in visual playfulness, so it's a shame that the glimpses promised by the title are only that, imaginatively rendered but too-brief and too-few peeks into an inner fantasy life characterised by unrestrained ego. Rather, much of the film is given over to a fairly one-note wallow in post-break-up malaise, and while I'm not averse to an examination of masculinity in crisis (the 70's setting is surely no accident), too much of the film plays like a…
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Keyhole 2012
I was pretty tired when I saw this at TIFF 11, so I thought I'd give it another shot, but my opinion - I found the narrative frustratingly opaque, many of the performances stilted, the humour flat, the editing seemingly random, rhythm and lyricism largely absent - is largely unchanged. Only at the very end does it seem to be coming together, but even then I'm not sure exactly what it is trying to say - maybe something about recreating the past to dispel the ghosts of unhappy times that followed? Colour me confounded.
