Uncomfortable Oedipal thriller of the picturesque maritime variety with a distinctly queasy tone, intensified greatly by some menacingly precocious kids and Kris Kristofferson's overbearing salty virility.
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I Stand Alone 1998
Gaspar Noé’s tragic, confrontational and bluntly grim debut gives its unstable ‘God’s Lonely Man’ protagonist a backstory so horrendous it’s almost comical then sends him on a path of non-redemption. It’s all told in a style blatantly indebted to one of the Argentine-French provocateur’s major influences, Gerald Kargl’s uncomfortably ruthless serial killer thing Angst, and is typically laced with humour so black and void-like that light itself doesn’t stand a chance. Like if you placed I Stand Alone next to,…
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The Ninth Configuration 1980
Still one of the most utterly indefinable, compellingly frustrating and infinitely intriguing films I've ever seen. And even as someone who is completely detached from religion, I find that The Ninth Configuration has much more to say about theological grappling than all 161 minutes of Scorsese's Silence.
Plus it includes a character who is adapting Shakespeare plays for dogs ("It's a labour of love, but damn it, someone has to do it!").
R.I.P. William Peter Blatty.
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