Fidelity to Plot: 4/5 Fidelity to Tone: 2/5 Enticement: 5/5 Music Choice: 1/5
10 Second Review: The Adjustment Bureau
In many ways, this film has everything I want: a good love story, John Slattery, chase scenes through Manhattan, and tone-on-tone menswear. Delicious.
Letting go of Baggage: The Darjeeling Limited
In The Darjeeling Limited, easily one of my favorite Anderson films, objects are everything. The brothers’ luggage stands for the past (deaths, regrets, loves) that they have not been able to accept. In a delicious […]
Metteur en scene: Sofia Coppola
Coppola is a metteur-en-scene in the trust French sense of the word: each shot is a carefully crafted vignette, a still, a photograph. It is the kind of filmmaking I enjoy the most: the feeling […]
The Face of Garbo (Le Visage de Garbo)
Garbo belongs to that moment of cinema where…one literally loses oneself in a human image, as in a filter, where the face constitutes a sort of absolute state of flesh which one is not able […]
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