Hunters and gatherers are known for their versatility. “Marguerite Duras does gay porn” doesn’t quite sell this movie’s entire gestalt but it comes close enough. (The fact that the key unseen figure is an Indian child is telling.) The undifferentiated digital shooting style and reliance on telling everything through voiceover results in great textures and sensuality precisely because you need to give up the conventional rewards. The film’s got a dry wit - the laptop scene, the actor who casually…
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Challengers 2024
Ideal trash/art blend, like if Passages was more sadistic. After growing increasingly skeptical about Guadagnino, this won me back over: no phony intellectualism, just vulgarity and a script that feels like what people were pretending Past Livezzzz was in its moral whiplashes. (Color me completely unsurprised that the inspiration for a guy who wrote a book called Boner has a more distinctive authorial personality than the woman who wrote herself as a Mary Sue who wants to win a Pulitzer.)…
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Hours for Jerome 1982
Part I is pretty untouchable. Opening shot is celestial music, like if the “I bring you love!” scene from The Simpsons was treated as serious rapture. Closer is its pristine counterpoint, it’s like a mic drop. The stuff in the middle is like visual ASMR. The overloaded gecko light sequence…damn. Some parts are like Koyaanisqatsi?
Part II is not exactly minor, although it feels like an exceptional retread and its opener/closer aren’t as unforgettable.
