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POOR THINGS

December 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment

POOR THINGS

Click here to listen to the flashback interview with Emma Stone for THE HELP. POOR THINGS is a glorious gothic fantasy of the grotesque and the macabre rendered with high art and low comedy. Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has found his muse in Emma Stone, who give a performance that blends careful construction with wild abandon.… Read More »

Tagged With: free will, gasping halibut, Grand Guignol, just give Emma Stone the Oscar now, politics, seduction, sex, unassailable logic

VOYAGERS

April 8, 2021 By Leave a Comment

VOYAGERS

Even though there is something worthy in concocting a tale where the philosophical conundrums of free will versus determinism vie with a rumination on human nature red in tooth and claw, VOYAGERS is, at best, a moribund Kubrick redux meets The Lord of the Flies. It confuses slow pacing with gravitas, and whispered dialogue with… Read More »

Tagged With: determinism, ecosystem collapse, free will, human nature, space travel

THE GIRL KING — Mika Kaurismaki Interview

December 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE GIRL KING — Mika Kaurismaki Interview

A film about a Swedish queen, directed by a Finnish filmmaker, and performed in English. That’s Mika Kaurismaki’s THE GIRL KING, the story of Queen Christina, an 18th-century monarch, raised as a boy, who fell in love with her lady-in-waiting, and abdicated her throne in order to convert to Catholicism and live a more satisfying… Read More »

Tagged With: abdication, free will, Greta Garbo, philosophy, Rene Descartes, Sweden religious wars

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