La Piscine, the movie this film is based on was 2/3 a great movie. This film more or less has all the same plot beats but replaces the stunning cinematography, tense dialogue and masterful acting with absolute garbage. It is also surprisingly unsexy.

When Popol Voh’s music for Aguirre, The Wrath of God kicked in, I almost turned the movie off. The cinematography in La Piscinr does actually evoke the feel of a Hockney painting. Ironically, this confusingly titled film…

This is what a dumb person thinks smart people sound like.

How many of the “cinephiles” giving this movie five stars haven’t read a single book since high school?

Great movie for people who don’t realize that Stanley Kubrick’s films were good but not as good as he thought they were.

This is like the comic book version of a Michael Hanake film.

I have zero confidence that the director of this film has any appreciation for classical music. He…

Apparently, if your dad is famous enough “A Clockwork Orange but it sucks” sounds like a compelling pitch to some people.

Brandon Cronenberg seems to think that a pointless extreme close-up on someone’s eye can elevate any scene because this movie repeats that exact same shot about 700 times to achieve nothing.

I wish I had known before buying a ticket that Brandon Cronenberg is a man in his 40s with sideburns like the bass player of a
Nu Metal…