I can't remember the last time I watched a film 2 days in a row and still want to watch it again.

Like many of us, probably, I've been watching loads of films and series during this interminable pandemic, but I haven't felt inclined to write about them. Maybe it's due to the lingering liminality & cultural malaise in which we find ourselves enmeshed.

But then I watched "Saint Maud," and I can't get it out of my mind!

Rose Glass'…

about half way through this austen adaptation, elizabeth and darcy meet under these huge roman columns, amidst the pouring rain, with the verdant rolling english countryside surrounding them, when darcy utterly blindsides elizabeth by - of all things - proposing! then they proceed to argue vociferously. elizabeth informs him that he's basically the last man on earth she would ever want to marry. and yet, before darcy storms off, they share such an erotically charged moment that it puts many…

It's 95 degrees outside; people are dying of the heat. But somewhere a baby is crying. Dressed in a white gown and blue robes, Rosemary recalls the Virgin Mary, as she walks through the linen-closet-cum-gates-of-hell to meet her child for the first time, knife poised in hand.

We all know who this baby is - that baby with the red eyes who she finally, gently, rocks in its pitch black bassinet with a subverted cross mobile.

Polanski leads us to…