The joke one liner is “sunset boulevard for people whose gloria swanson is peter cushing” but the actual review is that this is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen woweeeeeee why aren’t we all talking about it all the time
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More Genuinely nothing better than coming home at the end of a long day and sitting down with a huge steaming mug of 90s nonsense
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Really struck this time by how perfectly pitched the mundanity of the religion is, all that quotidian C of S bake sale energy, chintz printed sofas and twinsets and kids dutifully reciting in class, the bit at the very very end up on the cliff when the wicker man has been burning for a while and some of the villagers’ ritual singing and arm-swinging has become a bit rote and lacklustre like it’s the last hymn at Easter service and…
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Depressive flat-affect nihilism is actually a fascinating way to think about the code of chivalry… It didn’t really work for me because I like it when actors in movies emote and have chemistry but I was certainly interested in it as a choice. Going in I had thought this was one of those lavish midcentury period epics so imagine my delight to discover it had a budget of 500 francs and a pack of cigarettes and was filmed in a…
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