Quite possibly the greatest film ever made about the ubiquitious connection between organised crime and politics in 20th century America. It's ingeniously captured as the overlapping memories of an unassuming enforcer to the mob who can barely comprehend the gigantic repercussions his activities bring about on both a national and personal level until he's practically in his own grave; transforming from an intricate, bitingly droll look at having to exist in a space where the underworld meets public affairs into…
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Aftersun 2022
Captures the complexity in attempting to untangle memories with such patience that it becomes quietly devastating before you've even realised it. A sensitive father-daughter relationship that expresses how joy and sorrow mutate into uncertainty when they are connected to a person who will forever remain just beyond reach. Where every seemingly inconsequential moment is scrutinised in the hope that it reveals depths previously unexplored; piecing together hazy video footage, fading photographs, nonchalant conversations and cerulean waves to find the answers…
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The Empty Man 2020
Aptly named because it certainly left me feeling empty.
I don't get the underground buzz that this has received at all; the scatter-brained merging of occult mystery, cosmic horror and police procedural is so half-baked on every front that it falls to pieces as soon as its ideas start to solidify. The root of the narrative has potential as some sort of paranormal puzzle, but it just descends into stupidity the longer it goes on before reaching a third act…
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Beau Travail 1999
Quite captivating as a pure mood piece, but constrained by the vague narrative and character choices that leave it nearly impenetrable on an emotional level. Beau Travail seems to be in dispute with itself over what it is trying to be, so it's little surprise that my thoughts about it are similarly conflicted.
The story of a commanding officer's distorted jealousy towards one of his troop explores despotism, repression and foreignness through the lenses of colonialism, military power structures and…
