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Enys Men (2022)
1 star reviews versus this movie: which are more pretentious?
Do people have a kink for watching a movie, not understanding it then going online to give it 1 star and say "I didn't understand it"?
It's a movie about a woman going crazy due to loneliness. What else do you need? A "wiki how" article?
Being serious now, this is a good piece of experimental cinema. Very well shot and the 16mm aesthethic is all there. Sound design is great and eerie, and the themes do play out nicely. We meet her, know how her work / daily life goes and see herself slowly getting affected by the loneliness when she is "visited" by ghostly manifestations of stuff she read or heard or lived before, like the dead fisherman, and earlier version of herself going through a traumatic event and even a bunch of nuns she saw in a dryed milk label. A strange monolith or gravestone becomes spooky, the bald dude is probably a ghost and the flowers are turning into mold and mold grows in dead things (see? Spooky)
There isn't much to say or hate here. The film is tremenduously repetitve but that's absolutely necessary to understand her condition. It does have some shots that I think confuse you more than help you understand it, and I'm lost on what the rock being throwing down the well even means. All in all, again, a good piece of experimental filmmaking.
I'm giving it 7 because I took one star out for each time I burst into sleep while watching.
Suspiria (2018)
Just... no.
I'm not a big fan of the original, even though I've watched it about 3 times, but... what was even this? This movie started off SO STRONG, but at the end of it everything just falls apart entirely. The story goes nowhere and the elements just never amount to anything substantial since the end seems like it has no connection to the rest of the movie.
So many characters felt thrown in just for the heck of it like the old doctor which I'm even more confused why they made Tilda play his role instead of just... hiring an actual old man since she playing him made no difference to the story aside of giving us an old man with the voice of a 14 year old.
The ending felt like it came out of nowhere. It didn't explain the purpose of any of the characters. What where they even doing, what they wanted. Why Suzy suddenly... What was Markos, what where the sisters or...
Well, the movie looked good and had great inspirations. They nailed the aesthetic, actually, they made it way better while staying true to the old cinematography. Is it worth watching just for that if you are a fan of the original? Probably not.
The Lodge (2019)
A movie you can feel it's mediocrity
I can't agree with whoever gave this movie a 1 but also can't believe how can someone give this a 10 or 9. I mean, it's a well made movie visually. Everything is there, it has nice photography, nice directing (I guess), the actors nailed it (except the kids most of the time) and it had something going for it, beyond having strong looks it had a genuinely unique plot with lots of opportunities: death cult, isolation, good references, madness, tons of tense moments and strong atmosphere, but in the end is like they grabbed all I just said and tossed it into a blender because the overall movie felt so poorly put together.
So many events which lead to nothing or mattered nothing. Every 20 minutes it felt like the movie was trying to build to something just to completely change or ignore it in the next transition. Did they develop the cult? No. Supernatural? Gone. The cabin in the middle of nowhere? Not a clue. Kids intentions? God knows. Most of the time I spent asking myself what is even this about since the movie felt like it was changing goals by the tick of clock. God, I didn't even know who the main character was supposed to be.
Filmmakers, stablish what your movie is about them build towards it with scenes that have context. That's it.
Overall it's a very mediocre movie, which doesn't mean it's bad but also doesn't mean it's good. I would recommend you watch it unless the feeling that something could've been much better is too much for you to handle, because that's how I'm feeling.