While loneliness is a shared experience, it's form can vary wildly between participants. Everyone around you mourns the wrong version of the person you loved. I have felt something adjacent to it, though in far less dramatic circumstances: watching an ex's friends toast to memories I was never invited into. Rúnar Rúnarsson's When the Light […]
The fish tank green glow hits you first. The chalky sidewalk blues appear alongside arcade purples which create a nauseating effect while colors reach their maximum intensity at eleven until your eyes become watery. The discovery of living in a different reality than your own becomes apparent only after you have already lost control of
Competitive sports films use metaphors to create the illusion of being intelligent according to their narrative approach. Guadagnino understands this situation and he moves through it with the same enthusiasm as a contented dog. Which, fine. "It's a relationship," Tashi tells Patrick about tennis. For fifteen seconds at a time, anyway. The remaining steps require
Unspoken words carry a unique weight. Stolen has that silence. It accumulates slowly, like snow on a windshield, and by the end you realize you have been holding your breath for reasons the plot alone cannot explain. Elle Marja Eira's debut follows Elsa, a young Sámi woman in northern Sweden whose childhood was marked by
The grubby cream suit serves as his protective armor which he uses to defend himself against everything outside. Or maybe more like a shroud. Who can tell. The color scheme in La Chimera creates an uncomfortable effect because it alternates between the bright Tuscan sunlight and the hidden underground areas where things build value through
There is a kind of desire that feels less like attraction and more like recognition. Like spotting someone across a crowded platform at Nørrebro station and knowing, before any exchange of words, that this person could undo you completely. Rose Glass understands this sensation intimately, and Love Lies Bleeding is her attempt to render it
Right off, something gets under my skin about this sequel. Not the sandworms. The color grading in the film creates an unpleasant effect on me. Fraser recorded these Abu Dhabi dunes during December when the sun created a gloomy atmosphere and the colors transitioned from Paul's warm amber scenes to an icy medical-like tone during
The filmmaker Glazer recorded his entire movie at the actual location which creates an authentic atmosphere throughout each scene. The sunlight that enters the scene through the concrete wall between Höss villa and Auschwitz creates a powerful effect in every frame. The family pool stands adjacent to dahlia beds and the greenhouse where tomatoes ripen
Poor Things presents itself as a straightforward work. The term "radical" has become the common description that people use to describe this concept. Liberating. Feminist Frankenstein reimagining, whatever. But the color story here tells you everything, actually betrays the whole conceit before you even realize what's happening. Black and white London. Obvious enough. The city
Saltburn puts on such an intense seduction show that it becomes embarrassing to observe because it resembles someone overexerting themselves at a social gathering where others seek the restroom. And yet. There's something about watching Barry Keoghan slurp bathwater that commits so hard to its own depravity you almost, almost respect it. The movie begins
