2015 Directed by Karyn Kusama
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.
Phil Hay Matt Manfredi Martha Griffin Wendy Ettinger Nick Spicer Dan Cogan Geralyn White Dreyfous Julie Parker Benello
La invitación, La invitación 2015, Приглашение
My wife and I got a diner party invitation to one of her co-workers place in the next few weeks. We are not Fucking going!!
So here's the thing.
Foreshadowing is a powerful storytelling tool if used correctly. It can give you a feeling of unease in a story that conveys a sense of normalcy. Without being able to put your finger on it, you get the sensation something is off, making you feel tense without knowing why.
The Invitation gets this. For about ten minutes. What remains is 60 minutes of foreshadowing with bits of story and character development in between. It lacks any and all subtlety. The main character literally keeps telling everyone something is wrong for two thirds of the film.
We get it. You're leading up to something.
I love slow burn thrillers. I love films that start out normal and…
undeniably tense as fuck, Kusama works wonder on a tiny budget and also there's Lindsay Burdge, but this is the latest in a long line of kinda cheap / formally excellent domestic horror stories that feel content to be genre exercises, and deny themselves the opportunity to become more than that. it's a hell of a ride, but it's all surface... it's all putting the right beats in the right places... it works, but it might work too hard.
at some point i thought they were gonna start a 10 people weird orgy thing or something... close enough
"... that was mercy"
the destructive, wavelike nature of grief as a communal experience that permeates every space we occupy, every movement we make & every interaction we have. kusama's formal grace is the obvious star here, the masterful staging, gestures & spatial awareness she shows off in particular, but as the film goes on & the screws tighten agonizingly slowly all the way until its haunting final image, kusama achieves something far beyond form -- her genre thrills deeply woven with a sense of the pervading, inescapable pain that, whether we're struggling to remember or forget, can blind us as easily as it brings us together.
88/100
A story of distance fed through the impenetrable barrier of grief. LA is seen as a glowing mirage within a hazy landscape, and the hills appear seductive, even flirtatious, in the face of looming modernity. It is where the damaged and the fearful, the deranged and the affected choose to reside, literal detachment encasing their unease. Karyn Kusama builds an entire universe - people as planets and spaces as mysterious areas of darkness and unknown conversations - so that the eventual horror unravels organically, all a singular puzzle although each piece is utterly fractured. And Will - played by a terrific Logan Marshall Green - is the audience surrogate, spinning around uncertain friends and foes in a woozy state,…
Genuinely shocked at the rollercoaster of ratings my subsequent viewings of this movie have taken me on, especially because this time it really reminded me of some bad student films I had to watch in Austin during college.
Was Logan Marshall-Green trying to look exactly like Tom Hardy or was I just obsessing over it so much that I began projecting his image onto LMG? Either way, I found it quite distracting as I tried to settle into The Invitation, it became a struggle of trying to force myself to just allow its methodical ambiance wash over me (despite the never-ending barrage of complaints launched by my restless brain).
The first hour had a simple (albeit sleek) formula, Tom Hardy has a confrontation with someone -> wanders through his old house -> has a flashback -> stares into the void -> someone interrupts and says something like "let's just leave" or "come on, let's go back inside" ->…
this movie sure has themes and it really does execute them!- theo
the agonizing pause between conversations with old friends you haven't seen in a while because of your choices and theirs. the lingering boredom of a dinner party that is taking way too long. old vintage wine that you couldn't give less of a crap about but your friend's new husband keeps blathering and so you take a sip. slowly unfolding puzzle pieces. the secrets of their lives unravel before you. discordant music plays and you lurk in the background.
this is totally my shit is what i'm trying to say. yes, i did just give it two stars.
the movie's real problem is that it plays its hand…
Hubiera sido un buen ejemplo de película posible si no fuera porque es una cagada.
Some brilliant performances in this slow burn horror which provides a poignant allegory of grief. At times a bit too self-congratulatory, The Invitation falls just short of being truly great, but more than worth a watch nonetheless.
Never been to any dinner parties before and I’m sure as hell not going to any at all now
it was only 100 min and somehow the first hour dragged on forever
like, we get it something weird is going to happen, make it interesting or just cut to the action, which btw, was TOO SHORT???
and the ending was good but they chose to put a kinda of conciliatory note over it? you just killed everybody, i can’t forgive you wtf
the last shot was great no complaints
all the interesting bits happened in the first 20 minutes and nothing came good after that
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