Matt_R

Favorite films

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  • The Fifth Season

    ★★½

  • Abuse of Weakness

    ★★★

  • Paper Planes

    ★★★★½

  • Felony

    ★★★

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The Fifth Season

2012

★★½ Watched

Sorry but I found this one cold and emotionally distant. It's comes off as a form of disconnected absurdist tableau. Even the progression of the narrative logic around the diminishing food stocks felt underdeveloped. The photography however was a high point. Imagine a depressed Elia Suleiman film. 2.5 stars

Abuse of Weakness

2013

★★★ Watched

Great concept and premise with decent acting that seems to fall down somewhere in the last third. It feels like it wants to be trickier as it's plotted like a thriller but ends up being about the actual 'weakness of a director for her leading man' which is stated blatantly at the start. 3 stars

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The Notebook

2013

★★★½ Watched

Impressive in it's fresh and poetic approach to a musing on violence, cruelty and survival A nagy füzet is at times difficult to watch but provides much food for thought. I found the digital aesthetic and CG effects disconnecting from the reality but was pleasantly surprised by some of the later narrative turns in particular with Grandma. Worth a watch. 3.5 stars

Paper Planes

2014

★★★★½ Watched

It's a kid's film about a paper aeroplane competition that's pretty much perfectly paced, funny, highly emotional and very well written. This is genre film-making at it's best that had many an adult pulling back the tears and happily rooting for the hero. Great stuff! 4.5 stars

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