wish it felt at all new, but this is lovely - funny, sexy, and the choreography rather deftly conspires with the mise en scene. nothing to write home about (it’s…
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The Outside Man 1972
This remains very high on the "frenchman dreams about United States as this dirty fantasyland" canon. Melville drained of the poetry in face of workman like genre function. Wonderful location…
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The Pirate 1948
It took me about 25 minutes to watch the 6 minute Gene Kelly Niña/poledance number because I kept having to rewind, it was too impressive, I needed to look at…
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The Pirate 1948
"You should try underplaying some time, very effective."
Ironically, no film has ever underplayed less, and been so effective; Minnelli shoots every inch of these set-pieces with colourful extravagance; no…
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Neptune Frost 2021
So much style but so little substance. The film gets two stars strictly due to the sound design, costumes and makeup.
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Neptune Frost 2021
LFF #23
This has a lot of enticing ingredients, and a few standout musical moments, but its perplexing blend of incomprehension, elusiveness, bald obviousness, and heavily metaphorical dialogue made this…
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