Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The final film in our Sight & Sound Blind Spots Marathon on Filmspotting. www.larsenonfilm.com/a-brighter-summer-day
Another avant-garde thriller from writer-director Mark Jenkin (Bait), Enys Men follows a researcher (Mary Woodvine) on the uninhabited island of the title. There to monitor a delicate flower that’s perched on a jagged, windswept outcropping, the researcher’s days follow a strict, lonely regimen: visit the flower and take measurements; drop a stone down an abandoned mine shaft nearby; pass a strange rock shaped like a shrouded figure; record observations in a journal over a cup of tea; and read A…
We really didn't need another superhero movie after this.
A few notes on this revisit:
- Pulls no punches on the domestic trauma front. This is about a husband and father's real betrayal. That late-night fight between the parents is uncomfortably true to life.
- "Tonyloaf"
- Elastigirl caught in the series of doors is better than almost any superhero action sequence staged since.
- "I never look back darling. It distracts from the now." (What does this mean for…