Archive for February 2024

10 posts from 01 to 28 February 2024.

  • Soares é Fixe

    Technically impressive biopic with incredible makeup and acting, in service of a crappy hagiography and bland story. The political equivalent of the effects driven extravaganza.

  • Das Lehrerzimmer

    This feels like Die Welle, with more meaning lost in translation. But the coup de grâce is avoided, the ending is weak, there is barely resolutions to the plot points.

  • Dirty Harry

    Celebrating fascist pigs have never been so stylish. A cinematic marvel wrapped around repulsive ideology, more explicit that Triumph of the Will.

  • Anatomie d'une chute

    Probably the best film with a calypso cover of 50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P.” on the soundtrack.

  • The Zone of Interest

    It’s really too subtle, a very small peak into banal lives spent murdering people at an industrial scale. This is better than Oppenheimer in almost every way.

  • Sin City

    An anthology of smaller stories. Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax logo means immediate shudders at the amount of nudity. God, it retroactively ruins so many films.

  • Fumer fait tousser

    Mon dieu, c’est magnifique. A higher budget silly B-movie, a much more comedic anthology of Troma-like schlock.

  • Shadow in the Cloud

    The Twilight Zone (Nightmare at 20 Thousand Feet) meets Ice Age meets Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.

  • High-Rise

    More JG Ballard weirdness, but this is much more “political” than Crash. It’s almost too on the nose. I’m sure the book doesn’t end like that, or maybe it does…

  • Occhiali Neri

    A Dario Argento film, but not stylised and giallo like Suspiria, more raw and undercooked.