2019 Directed by Trey Edward Shults
A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.
Kelvin Harrison Jr. Taylor Russell Renée Elise Goldsberry Sterling K. Brown Lucas Hedges Alexa Demie Neal Huff Clifton Collins Jr. Krisha Fairchild Ruben E.A. Brown Joshua Brockington Vivi Pineda David Garelik Alan Fritz Kristin Wollett Ellen Marguerite Cullivan Taisha Perez Nicholas Ryan Hernandez Bill Wise Harmony Korine Carter Harcek
Un momento en el tiempo
WAVES feels like A24’s Magnolia. an operatic plea for people to be better to each other, and a cautionary tale about why you should be wary of anyone whose favorite Kanye album is The Life of Pablo. a whole lot of it doesn't work but i couldn't help but respect the ambition and open-heartedness of it all.
Exactly what you’d expect from a movie to play Kanye, Kendrick, Tyler, Cudi, Frank Ocean, Chance, Radiohead and Animal Collective all in one movie. The first half of this film is literally so chaotic but in a really good way. The opening credits are sick, but I can’t tell if that’s just because I like Floridada by Animal Collective. And that’s how I felt about pretty much most of this film. Do I like this or is it really just the music? And then in the second half they dial it down on the music and you’re like yep...was definitely just the music. A mess, an absolute mess. Such a god damn mess. But maybe...MAYBE....that was the point. But a mess. This film will mean a lot to a lot of high school kids and I respect that but ehehhhhh
Ambitious, bold and beautiful. Easily one of my faves of the year. Mind boggling that the Spirits and Gothams didn’t give this film more love. A big screen experience for sure. Trey Edward Shults is the real deal.
Drew Daniels’s cinematography is gorgeous. Shot on Alexa Mini with Panavision C, D and E lenses. Fluid and inventive Steadicam work by my friend Osvaldo Silvera Jr. (The Florida Project).
Watched at Cineplex Odeon Park Theater - Vancouver
when that aspect ratio changed from widescreen to 4:3, my ass clenched along with it
im already trying not to think of the meme potential to watching a teenager trash his room and punch a wall after getting a bad text what makes you think playing tyler the creator over it will help
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As if a r/hhh playlist tried to mimic the aesthetic of Moonlight - truly an embarrassment. Second half plays better as it settles down, but Trey Edward Shults has no consideration for the interiority of human beings, and even less so for the functions of drama, so the whole tapestry collapses. The moods and energies of his work are completely unfounded - all anxiety and pain but no basis in concrete characterizations. Everyone in this is a type, an object to be painted all pretty and backed by music expected to do the heavy lifting, and it leads to a disingenuous visceral assault on the senses. This is a shallow kiddie pool playacting as an ocean of feeling, with…
real 2013 tumblr ass cinema. deeply contrived, monotonous histrionics and misery porn with the volume and extremity of the Directing cranked up to 11. really feels like shults wanted to make a spotify playlist more than a movie. some nice performances (especially when given the chance to breathe after things settle down a bit in the second half) but someone please buy this man a fucking tripod
The most arrogant type of film - one that presumes to understand the lives and experiences of people of color, yet refuses to acknowledge its own shortcomings while gleefully inserting itself into every facet of their cultures. It's a film that thinks the words "autobiographical" or "color blind" will somehow absolve itself of all accountability in the misguided portrayals we see on screen. But pretty photography can't hide everything.
I thought Krisha was great - it felt like the story of the Shults family at an incredibly intimate level, and the filmmaking fit the story. But to call Waves autobiographical in that sense, thereby superimposing a white Texan man's story onto that of a black family, is arrogance of the…
didn't always work for me, and sometimes it gets carried away with its own ambition, but i adored the latter half. i think waves is at its best when it focuses on forgiveness.
“what a difference a day makes.”
a tale of two halves. the first holding your breath and breaking your heart in two, the second walking beside you piecing it back together again. it’s a tragedy that gives itself the time to heal, the time to breathe. life changes with the tide, it comes and goes in waves. but with every retreating tide is the promise of another to come. each wave brings its own adventure, its own highs and lows. out there is an ocean full of new chances. chances to forgive, to forget. to grieve, to rebuild. to love. this is cinema at its most powerful.
Thank You, Trey. Thank you for making this beautiful work of art that will stick with me forever. It’ll be the film I show my children, the film I hope will inspire them to better themselves like it’s done with me. What I felt while watching this is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced in my life. It’s the film that left my dad, who’s a domineering, emotionally closed-off father like Sterling K Brown’s character, in complete tears during the car ride home as he apologizes for everything he’s put me through. The constant pushing me to my limits, the lack of nurturing. Someone who I’ve always seen as a tough, unsympathetic person that just doesn’t understand me or my feelings is…
