Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A refreshingly unconventional film that failed to really cast a spell on me. I think I wanted more of...something, either for it to lean way harder into mist-shrouded pagan mystery or for some sparks of Terry Gilliam-esque fun or something.
An engaging and honest film about the cost of being vulnerable and human on social media when you're a woman and social media is also where you work. The way people can assume a closeness and intimacy that isn't theirs to assume. The way the threat of sexual violence is never far away. Magdalena Kolesnik's lead performance as fitness influencer Sylwie is excellent. She really lets you see both how much work Sylwie puts into her carefully constructed online persona and the real person sometimes struggling under the weight of that performance. It's on MUBI as of this writing, I recommend it.
Definitely seems like it's going down the John Wick road for a while--especially with a violent scene that takes place in the most hidden, secret depths of Portland's cuisine scene--but it's not the same kind of film. It's something stranger and more unexpected. It's similarly a story about a grief-stricken man (and yes, one could reasonably say that we have too many of those) but his weapon in what could be called the film's final battle is...well, it's not violence.…