Out to own today:
Her
“Play different melancholy song,” Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix)
Falling in love with your computer operating system is not so far-fetched, right? No? Ahem. Even if you’re not a technophile, by the end of the fabulous HER one is pretty confident you’ll empathise. Delivering a work of fiction that feels truthful about connecting romantically is too rare. Wish fulfilment is the common modus operandi. Portraying the ideal is easier than grappling with the real. What a year 2013 was for the cinema of heartache! See BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR or GLORIA or THE GREAT BEAUTY. [To read more, click here.]
Falling in love with your computer operating system is not so far-fetched, right? No? Ahem. Even if you’re not a technophile, by the end of the fabulous HER one is pretty confident you’ll empathise. Delivering a work of fiction that feels truthful about connecting romantically is too rare. Wish fulfilment is the common modus operandi. Portraying the ideal is easier than grappling with the real. What a year 2013 was for the cinema of heartache! See BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR or GLORIA or THE GREAT BEAUTY. [To read more, click here.]
Stalingrad
“It’s impossible to wage war against you people,” Peter Kahn (Thomas Kretschmann)
STALINGRAD might just have created a new subgenre: 3D war porn. And by that, one means stunning combat presentation more appropriate for a vacuous action flick than for a serious Second World War film. Stylish eye-candy carnage sits uneasily alongside cheesy melodrama and merciless brutality, in this take on the siege of the Russian city. Video game analogies are not out of place. I’m looking at you, ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Battlefield’. [To read more, click here.]
STALINGRAD might just have created a new subgenre: 3D war porn. And by that, one means stunning combat presentation more appropriate for a vacuous action flick than for a serious Second World War film. Stylish eye-candy carnage sits uneasily alongside cheesy melodrama and merciless brutality, in this take on the siege of the Russian city. Video game analogies are not out of place. I’m looking at you, ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Battlefield’. [To read more, click here.]
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