Morvern Callar has one of the bleakest cold opens of any film. We see the titular woman (played by Samantha Morton), as she wakes up with her boyfriend dead from suicide on the floor and a computer screen that says "READ ME." The note instructs her to "be brave" and to send his novel to various publishers he's listed. That's the plot portion of the opening, before we even get there we lay with Morvern on the floor, her fingers…
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If Beale Street Could Talk 2018
Barry Jenkins' film opens with the same introduction that James Baldwin's novel starts with, describing Beale Street in New Orleans as something identifiable and inside every African American; the film (and novel, obviously) is set in 1960s Harlem and though it seemed a little too novelistic to include that title card at the start, I am glad that Jenkins did. After numerous scenes involving hand placement of loved ones and strangers, sometimes wanted, often unwanted, we found ourselves in Puerto…
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TÁR 2022
To give a hint at what's special about TÁR you needn't look further than the opening credits. The opening credits start backwards with members of the crew that generally are at the very end of the end credits, like catering and production units and assistant editors. This is a movie about how an ego can grow too big and turn to manipulation when one role gets too much credit in a collaborative field. An orchestra is like a film set,…
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