Probably the best adaptation of anything I’ve ever seen, based on some of the best novels I’ve ever read, and really actually I am going to be thinking about this forever. The acting!!!!!!! Holy fuck the fucking acting. Impeccably cast. Ahhhhhhhhh I can’t be articulate about this actually just go read the books and then watch this show cause holy fuck y’all
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Ainu Mosir 2020
This was beautiful!! It’s clear reading other reviews that folks are not picking up on a lot of cultural context, which is a shame, but I think even with zero advance knowledge this is a lovely film.
There were many great parallels, but one stands out to me that I think encapsulates so much of this story-
We see the ceremonial dance performed for the tourists inside a clean performance hall, and shots of the slightly checked out expressions of…
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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol 1962
Lovely old school animation, a strange conceit for a telling of a Christmas story, but it works well enough- I’ve wondered if it would work better without the Broadway framing, but I genuinely can’t imagine it without it.
The songs are surprisingly moving and enjoyable-
“A hand for each hand was planned for the world, why don’t my fingers reach”
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Coffee for All 2017
Is this about coffee or about how much the Italian criminal justice system sucks? Kind of both, but it also can’t seem to decide what it’s about. Unfortunately, this movie is not very well executed- the cinematography leans a bit corny, the narrative is a bit jumbled, and the American woman in it feels incredible random in comparison to the rest of the narrative. I’ll confess that I also just find her annoying- she talks like my middle school bullies…
