When Sad Jokes gets started you’re pretty sure what you’re getting into — and the title isn’t subtle. But it’s a needed medicine — this film isn’t dark, it’s comically tragic. It sits in the quiet of its own contemplation and refuses to be defined by
Julie Delpy has a brilliant sense of humour for such a politically minded auteur.
With this film, and despite her recent public gaffes, she paints an incredibly defiant portrait of the current European anti-refugee sentiment, all of it’s facets and arguments, and refuted each with a careful, hopeful hand.
Any fan of Almodóvar will enjoy the hallmark trappings of his craft within this story — color, exposition, composition, socially inappropriate humour and fascination with death and disease from the dignified position.
However — because of course — the script feels as if it thinks in Spanish and speaks in English. The characters
Any fan of Almodóvar will enjoy the hallmark trappings of his craft within this story — color, exposition, composition, socially inappropriate humour and fascination with death and disease from the dignified position.
However — because of course — the script feels as if it thinks in Spanish and speaks in English. The characters
When Sad Jokes gets started you’re pretty sure what you’re getting into — and the title isn’t subtle. But it’s a needed medicine — this film isn’t dark, it’s comically tragic. It sits in the quiet of its own contemplation and refuses to be defined by
Julie Delpy has a brilliant sense of humour for such a politically minded auteur.
With this film, and despite her recent public gaffes, she paints an incredibly defiant portrait of the current European anti-refugee sentiment, all of it’s facets and arguments, and refuted each with a careful, hopeful hand.
TW: African Women vs Familial Patriarchy
Rungano Nyoni has handed the world a looking glass they haven’t held before.
This is not an unfamiliar story — but it is unfamiliarly told, amongst iPhones and Zoom Jobs and Pink suitcases, we find the same Familial secrets being held, the generational cycle.
Let’s get the obvious out the way — Henry Golding is dazzling in this, and the cast that surround him in his star turn are steadfast, subtle and skilled. The story is as heartbreaking as you’d expect, and the story is highly satisfying.
What I want to touch on
Mild spoilers.
Mortality is weird, right?
What O, Canada attempts to do is to have a discussion about what matters at the end of a life. What ends up being important. How life weights up at the end.
At first, you think you’re watching a film about film making.
I can’t promise you’re going to leave this film feeling that goody goody fuzzy wuzzy feeling. Maybe a tiny bit. What you’ll leave the theatre with is relief.
In Colman Domingo’s hands, you are always safe. However, in an incredibly rare turn of events, it’s
Oh my god holy fuck this was amazing.
So I’d never heard of Kneecap before - seated in the Imperial Core as I am, I haven’t even heard it around! Which is why this film making it to theatres, and Fassbender’s endorsement, is truly as much a
