I find that films that are highly stylized can easily alienate their audiences. Their stylized elements push the audience away and keep them at a distance. Because of how apparently different the film looks, feels, or sounds, there is a struggle to keep attention on anything but that, making it difficult to fall into the film’s world and pace. For Night is Short, Walk on Girl, the exact opposite is true. Both the art and animation are highly stylized, yet the very apparent and distinct style actually serves to welcome and comfort the audience.
All too often, it feels as though time-travel movies are confusing for the sake of being confusing. A complex timeline not for the sake of thematic complexity, but instead so that people will tell their friends about how confusing the movie is. Understanding and dissecting the film become a pseudo-scientific endeavor, rather than an artistic one…. Primer is, pun not intended, a prime example of this.
The film is blunt in depicting her as unequivocally monstrous and abusive. But, at the same time, it is hard not to find yourself pulled into her pace.
In all honesty, it has been about a week since I watched The Banshees of Inisherin. Normally, I try not to leave too much time between watching a film and writing about it. A little time to let it sit and to […]
Recently, I attended the 58th Chicago International Film Festival. I was able to attend 3 films. This is the third of the three subsequent reviews fro, the festival. Charlotte’s Wells’s 2022 feature Aftersun is not really constructed around a plot, rather is […]
Mikhaël Hers’s 2022 film The Passengers of the Night is a film that certainly looks and sounds wonderful. The cinematography is at moments stunning, the score and audio are pleasurable to the ears. The cast’s performances are equally well done. However, as far as narrative goes, we are not given much.
There is so much beauty in the craftsmanship of Runner, especially the cinematography and composition. But at the same time, there are deep rooted problems, most notably the weak plot and try-hard dialogue.