I tend to struggle with Gilliam a bit because his mode of image creation (wide angle lenses at extreme angles to distort both space and characters) rubs me the wrong way. It seems like the right fit for the stories he tells, just not my personal favorite.
That aside, this is still a pretty excellent film. The fact that it deals with shock jock media types, mass shootings, and homelessness (in such a humane way) makes it feel remarkably modern.…
I started this one only because Joachim Trier hasn’t let me down yet. I was otherwise very much not sold on the premise of following a junky walking around town on a day off from rehab.
Trier kills it though. The performances are perfect. The tension slowly builds in a way that always feels organic. There are sparing uses of unconventional editing choices that engage, surprise and perfectly fit their moments.
The Anders Danielsen Lie performance is fucking incredible. Damn, he’s good. He somehow manages to be understated and huge at the same time.
Q&A moderated by Paul Scheer featuring five of the women in the film and director Marcie Hume, editor Adam Franklin and producer Star Rosencrans.
Given the subject matter, this is clearly ripe for a salacious treatment that would be little different from low brow reality TV and yet it is nothing of the sort. The filmmakers spent years with these subjects and crafted a deeply nuanced portrait of not just Corey but of all of those in his orbit.
This…
I am going to be thinking about this one for a while, but most of my thoughts are probably not the ones Aster was aiming for.
He’s a very talented filmmaker trying to do too much here. One character has a crypto fixation that is mentioned multiple times without being funny or otherwise impacting anything. Why? Also, was race a serious topic in this film or just part of the background noise. I’m not really sure.
I think what I…
