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you've watched that more than once
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Honestly, I turned it off after about 25 minutes and never looked back.you've watched that more than once
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Usually when critics overwhelming give a film glowing reviews while the fans shun it, I side with Team Critics.
Die My Love gets 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, while ticket buyers only 46%.
I am siding with the public on this one. Just way too bleak. While I sympathize with someone going through the issues the Jennifer Lawrence character is struggling with, I just couldn't empathize.
Some very bold choices though and a good performance along with others (Robert Pattinson & Sissy Spacek). Just too long. Not enough dark humor to string me along.
Die My Love gets 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, while ticket buyers only 46%.
I am siding with the public on this one. Just way too bleak. While I sympathize with someone going through the issues the Jennifer Lawrence character is struggling with, I just couldn't empathize.
Some very bold choices though and a good performance along with others (Robert Pattinson & Sissy Spacek). Just too long. Not enough dark humor to string me along.
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I recently saw both of Richard Linklater's new films, released in consecutive weeks. A die hard Linklater fan that yearns to see them on big screens really has to search them out. Both were blink before you miss it theater runs before they headed to streaming. That's a shame, because I really think watching his films should be done old school.
There's nothing to connect the works, other than they both happen to be about other entertainment mediums in decades past.
Blue Moon is set at Sardi's in 1943 and the central character is Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke) of Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical fame and documents his demise (spoiler alert), not able to get out of his own way. This spawned an even bigger pairing of Rodgers & Hammerstein, and this movie takes place on Opening Night of their mega-hit, Oklahoma! Explanation point noted.
As with a lot of Linklaters films "time" also becomes a character and 99% of the movie happens on that fateful evening, essentially in real time. Sort of most like SubUrbia.
I found it rather enjoyable, especially Hawke and Margaret Qualley's performances. While not a huge 40s - 50s Broadway fan, I was soaked in enough of the lore from my parents & grandparents that I was familiar enough with most of the story points.
Nouvelle Vague was set in 1960, and is about paying respect to French New Wave cinema. It's filmed in marvelous black and white and chronicles the effort to finance and film the move Breathless directed by Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) which starred Iowa native Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch).
It's mostly in French with English subtitles. While I liked this enough to recommend (especially for Linklater fans), I probably found Blue Moon more enjoyable. Probably because I am just that familiar or really into French New Wave cinema.
Zoey Deutch. Radiant.
There's nothing to connect the works, other than they both happen to be about other entertainment mediums in decades past.
Blue Moon is set at Sardi's in 1943 and the central character is Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke) of Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical fame and documents his demise (spoiler alert), not able to get out of his own way. This spawned an even bigger pairing of Rodgers & Hammerstein, and this movie takes place on Opening Night of their mega-hit, Oklahoma! Explanation point noted.
As with a lot of Linklaters films "time" also becomes a character and 99% of the movie happens on that fateful evening, essentially in real time. Sort of most like SubUrbia.
I found it rather enjoyable, especially Hawke and Margaret Qualley's performances. While not a huge 40s - 50s Broadway fan, I was soaked in enough of the lore from my parents & grandparents that I was familiar enough with most of the story points.
Nouvelle Vague was set in 1960, and is about paying respect to French New Wave cinema. It's filmed in marvelous black and white and chronicles the effort to finance and film the move Breathless directed by Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) which starred Iowa native Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch).
It's mostly in French with English subtitles. While I liked this enough to recommend (especially for Linklater fans), I probably found Blue Moon more enjoyable. Probably because I am just that familiar or really into French New Wave cinema.
Zoey Deutch. Radiant.