I watched another 6 movies last week. The week started reasonably well, but took something of a turn.
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- Harvest is often surreal, even hallucinatory, unfolding slowly in this uncertain time and place of upheaval and change.
- I’m not as familiar with the tales of Odysseus as I’d maybe like, but The Return doesn’t insist upon that knowledge, is a simple enough tale of violence and regret, with a compelling performance by Ralph Fiennes.
- Love Me can feel a little like a short film stretched to feature length, and still doesn’t necessarily flesh out its ideas as much as it might, but they’re deep philosophical ideas about what it means to be human and real, and the movie plays with those ideas in interesting ways, with strong performances by the two actors.
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- Death of a Unicorn could maybe use a sharper satirical bite, or could make its villains a little more unlikable, but it’s often funny and well cast.
- Margot Robbie is an undeniably electric performer, who is just completely wasted in the otherwise tedious Dreamland. As critic Peter Sobczynski writes, “there is a fine line between ‘homage’ and ‘uninspired imitation,’ and this film constantly finds itself tripping over it.” I felt like my time had just been wasted by the end of it.
- Wicked City is an interesting experience, full of a lot of strange, often hypersexualized body horror, but it isn’t a particularly enjoyable experience, often for the same reasons.
I also rewatched Local Hero, which I think is a movie a lot of people are a lot more fond of than I am. I do like it a lot, as it’s quite charmingly endearing, but I still don’t think it’s some great masterpiece.