The movie has something to say about no matter how radically you change your life, you still can't outrun who you are, illustrated in the final scene when Lu takes up smoking again. Yes she has this passionate romance with a goddess, yes she's eliminated the "evil" men in her life, yes she's saved her sister, yes she's eluded capture, yes she's freed herself from her life, but calling back to her anti-smoking self-help tapes that say that smoking is a way to stop the feeling of emptiness, she goes right back to smoking in the end after all she's accomplished. So refreshing to get movies that don't stick to stock narratives. Rose Glass's style in this film reminded me of Boots Riley with "Sorry to Bother You" and "I'm a Virgo."
I kinda wonder if she would continue smoking after that though. I feel like when she was forced to actually do the dirty work of killing herself again, it caused her to use the “just for emergency” smoke that Daisy had given her (as she strangles her out and drags her corpse out into the desert). As a former smoker myself that had a hard time quitting (but it’s been more than a decade since I’ve had one), I remember having moments where I thought “well of course THIS merits a cigarette” that almost wouldn’t even mentally count against the hard work of quitting I was doing. Like a car accident or breakup or something. Loved Sorry to Bother You… shame that Armie Hammer turned out to be a psycho but I suppose that just adds to his character in this film now. Need to watch I’m a Virgo. Especially as a Virgo myself haha.
@@MrJagermeister That's a good take on the last smoke, I forgot about the foreshadowing with Daisy's line. I'm a Virgo has a lot more in common than both directors' styles, in that they both have that cool visual effect of giants interacting with normal size people. Definitely worth the watch.
That theme of being unable to outrun who you are felt both too on the nose for me and too abstract. It didn't carry any emotional weight for me. Are there any men in the film who aren't 'evil' and irredeemable? Again, too on the nose for me. A feminist film shouldn't have to work so hard to tell you it's feminism.
Not every film is a message film. This is an atmospheric exercise, it really worked so well for me. I loved the risks it took and thought it was such a fun ride all the way through. If there is a message to be had, I'd say it's a cautionary tale about the dangers of obsessive love. I really enjoyed it!
A lot of films set in the 80's just don't seem as "lived in" as Love Lies Bleeding does. Like they're just trying too hard to be in our face with the 80's aesthetic. Kudos to the production design as there are so many period specific details that just firmly ground it and there's a grit and grime to it all. I need to go back and watch Saint Maud now. I'm an instant fan of Rose Glass. Thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
Her name is Katy M. O’Brian. Never once did you say her real name through the entire review. You knew everyone else’s real name. She’s 2nd billing behind Kristen Stewart, she gave honestly a great breakout performance. Katy M. O’Brian.
I had this exact same critique about this movie when I watched it. Of course the aesthetic is wonderful to look at, but in order for a movie to be truly impactful, we need more than that. I think the Cohen brothers do this particularly well in their movies--They juxtapose sparse landscapes and muted colors with the complex and exciting stories of their characters. In Love Lies Bleeding, we got a lot of aesthetic and noise, but we don't get the chance to engage with the characters on any type of deeper level. We don't even get to find out what crimes the patriarch of the family partakes in--He's just portrayed as a crime boss that has killed a lot of people. All of those finer points are sacrificed to the almost excessive focus on aesthetic and magical realism, and it left me personally wanting more.
Having just watched it I would tend to agree. The characters don't seem to learn anything or have an kind of arc. I would have been more impressed by this film when I was younger and more easily pleased by style, but as I get older I'm more discerning about emotional truth and this film had about as much of that as a Tarantino movie (Jackie Brown excepted). It's a shame because the quirky characters, acting and aesthetic were all in place for something truly special.
Agreed, the characters were what made this special. In Saint Maude, I remember being struck by each persona's revealed cruel streak. It felt as though what made these people mean, made them human as well. In this one it was the incredibly bad decision-making on full display that opened up the characters, and no one made more bad decisions than Jackie, the bodybuilder. I like your description of her 'spirit' which belies an innocence concealing formidable contradictions. She owns the movie's second half. The first half is Lou's: Lonely, working for a father she hates, enraged by a family drama she feels too powerless to control. These are the basic chess pieces, and Lou, who is passive, spends all her time plotting a revenge she'll likely never enact. Then Jackie arrives, and the board explodes. What a monster... What a beautiful freak... How many people do you think Jackie's killed? My guess is five, including the two we see. She's an original. 10/10 I like the way Rose Glass writes women. She's like the Scorsese of females. Did you know that alongside women's rise to power an increase in the abuse of alcohol by the fairer sex has been documented? Being human has never been easy, but being a female character has often been boring. Glass is doing her best to destroy that tendency.
I thought that Love Lies Bleeding was a superb neo noir for most of its run time, but that it snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the final minutes by going into "A24-ness."
Perfectly said, the movie was really really good but my love for the movie was really deflated by the final minutes. Why do a24 films do stuff like this all the time lol
I can't believe and be immersed in the love between them, it needs more development to be as deep as the movie is trying to be, so the outcome feels off to me
To me it makes sense when I tie it to development psychology. They both come from dysfunction during their formative years, and expression of love and depth will not just magically appear. If one doesn’t know how to be tender but has lived within aggression (which is taught), it would make no sense for both of the women’s characters to just from out of nowhere know how to be and express sort of what the norm is within a healthy relationship. They don’t have those tools...yet (, but it could have been written in, a process of them starting to learn how to get the tools and how to use them for a healthy expression and process of emotions). I liked that the focus wasn’t mainly on their love for each other, because life isn’t zoomed in like that- outside of that life continues with ties to other people in different ways. Parallell to them finding each other and connecting, the sister lived through her hell and the father had his things going on and the past ons (?) that was extremely clingy. This was a beautiful try, according to me, at trying to make a movie that wasn’t one where you knew people’s lines and scenes way ahead of time. The normalalisation process in the domestic violence was nice to see (even if it was so horrendous it was there in the first place the dv). We don’t really see the psychological aspect of domestic violence, which was in this script. Kristen Stewart mentioned what so many within the lgbtq+ community have mentioned, FINALLY a story that isn’t stuck at self-loathing for being part of the community or trying to convince family/friends/workplace that they can be ok with the character being a part of the lgbtq+ community. This movie offered something way beynd that, it wasn’t even an issue here (in the characters’ view on themselves). No, avoiding of feelings and losing each other out of fear of being genuine in regards of the emotions of a same sex attraction. It felt fresh that they switched things up in so many different way and how geavy they leaned into the åsychology asåect but without being too obvious and risk to make it look dumb/patting the viewer on the head type writing.
won't lie, it's what made me click on the thumbnail, cuz the movie bruised my brain a bit (in a mindfck way) and I didn't want some superficial or antiwoke/anti-queer critique which wouldn't help me make sense of it. I figured _Watchmen_ might be worth my time. I sorta agree with the review. I wonder if they have a Dune 2 review now, cuz there's a similar critique about it, except that they really pulled off the aesthetic stuff so we'll that there are (for me) psychological themes expressed through them that the explicit story didn't need to address.
It would have been interesting to hear you dive deeper into WHY it was lacking and HOW it could have met your expactations/desires for this movie. Lately I feel it can ruin an experience if I decide in advance what a movie ”should” offer, and if it doesn’t meet up to those expactations it’s a failure. Maybe movies can have their on thing going on and doesn’t need to follow an already created box?!
I loved this movie and it's became one of my favorite movies already, definitely my favorite movie of the year thus far. The character development was top notch and they all played their roles amazingly making them all feel very authentic to their characters. The movie itself took so many unexpected turns it was anything but predictable and kept you on the edge of your seat almost from start to finish. I would love to see a prequel about Lou Sr. (the dad).
I think Rose Glass has definite potential as a director and I love what she has chosen to tackle thematically so far with her first 2 movies ... but I felt Saint Maud was a much tighter and more solid film overall as a movie whereas Love Lies Bleeding feels a lot more like a somewhat intriguing draft of a potential eventual movie for me. I agree with you in that the first half of LLB is far stronger than the rest of the movie and I wish that all of the major characters had been explored at least a bit more deeply whether internally or in terms of the intersecting relationships. I partially disagree with you on the use of abstractions though ... for me, I would have loved if the use of abstraction and unusual imagery had been more creative and intense and unusual and unexpected and more intrinsically woven throughout the story in both thematic and stylistic ways. I lukewarmly liked the movie overall but had much higher expectations ... perhaps next time.
She is one of so many directors who get hailed as great artists before they are even competent craftsmen. Glass is not devoid of talent, but she has a long way to go before she will make anything important.
I think 'the love in the movie is secondary' when Jackie puts her own love for Lou in the backseat. The more the movie goes on the more and more this crazy plot unfolds but this is also synonymous with Jackie upping her steroid use and progressively getting more aggressive and focused on her physique, even remembering what Lou said when Jackie throws up on stage, "don't bring attention to yourself", yet she still does the exact opposite. It feels like it may be a really intense commentary on the devastating mental effects of steroid use and possibly how that feeling of strength could be a 'high', I think it was a main point, not an addition to help the CGI department. It felt more like, these people love each other so much, but there's this devastating thing (steroids here) that one keeps enabling or even pushing the other to do, and even though they're both okay with it, it creates such dangerous actions that may look like they're done out of love, but are actually done out of an inability to control or reason. At least that's what it felt like to me.
I agree entirely with your review. This flick was a rollercoaster. I was absolutely in love with the first half of the film. The Killer Joe-esque white trashy 80s Texan noir aesthetic was perfect. The acting by the leads was captivating. Ed Harris brought a Bobby Peru level of creepiness to his villain. But my ardour cooled as the movie contrivances and story indulgences piled up, until the plot nose-dived into a flaming ravine (as it were), and I was left feeling similarly frustrated at what felt like a missed opportunity. Then something odd happened: in the final moments, the film lent into its mounting dementia to such an extent that it once again left a smile on my dial as the credits rolled and Stewart took a symbolic drag of her cigarette. Sure, the closing metaphor about giving into past habits was sledgehammer subtle - but somehow it worked for me anyway.
I love Saint Maud, so was really looking forward to Rose Glass's next film. From your review, it does sound a bit like how I felt about Trainspotting, which was so self-consciously trying to impress that I couldn't get into the characters or story much. I thought Saint Maud really got into the head of its protagonist and achieved a great balance between psychodrama and horror and used its setting really well. Shame (for me) she has gone to the U.S. but that's where the money is, I suppose. I'll probably give this one a go in the cinemas too.
Saint Maud was an exceptional film (especially that wow of an ending) for the director, so this should definitely be worth a look even if the plot outline doesn’t particularly grab you.
This movie had potential but fell flat. Saint Maude made an impression on me and ive watched it multiple times but this is a mess that i wont watch again. I'm not sure what you saw in Stewarts performance, she has no range IMO, i found her character too cliche and boring and annoying actually. All of the other characters seemed more interesting. Thanks foe sharing your review.
I wasn't partichlarly rooting for any of them except Beth, but it was a very engaging portrayal of the self destructive patterns of mounting secrecy, lack of accountability, addiction, and lust. The ending veered a bit too far into the surreal, imo, but I liked the visceral, pulpy vibe of the story and the way it was shot overall. Not in my top 10 of the year like it is for so many others, but I think I definitely get what people see in it. It kinda felt like this year's Uncut Gems in a way.
This is such a well written review - fantastic description after seeing this film and looking for review & analysis. Edit: Wow, looking at the timestamps throughout the video now, it’s so curious and artful in a freaky technological way seeing them jump from “Probably Signs of a False Flag Attack” to mentioning Ukraine and “Misinformation Operation” in some cryptic way seemingly relating to modern war presently or messing with artificial intelligence algorithms or something.
Definitely more in agreement with your review. It was great for the first half and then lost its way. Many are giving it overall praise just for getting weird the last 45 minutes.
I think what you’re getting at is that there’s no moral center in this movie. I think it should have been Kristen Stewart’s character but obviously that’s totally out the window by the end of the movie and what happens in the very last scene.
That's how I felt; no real characters arcs. Instead it's just pulp, which can work in some circumstances just not this one because the film is too often asking to be taken seriously.
I read an almost unreadable Rolling Stone puff piece (more like fluff piece) on Stewart which seemed like an extended advertisement for the film. Didn't really make me any more interested in seeing it.
they were trying the grift of claiming there were men mad at it to garner publicity. Right wingers took the photos and they were saying, "look at this. She doesn't look as good as she used to...." It's a right wing talking point they do but it isn't hate. IT's about presenting oneself, but the studio wanted to make a hate controversy.
This movie is kind of the ultimate example of a "nice try" movie for me. I admire its pretentions and daring and originality, I admire it trying to do something a little different. I don't quite think it works. But it's interesting and I'd like to see more from this director.
I have not seen Love Lies Bleeding but already wish James Franco played Dave's part, cuz you know. All movies have movie tropes, if you view them as such. I think we all see the tropes if the story itself is weak. And some movies are all tropes but draw you in, like Star Wars. Not sure if you reviewed The Holdovers so I will have to check but that is by far the best movie I have seen in a long time, there is dialog said even by side ancillary characters that are priceless, the writing is so great. I actually shed tears watching it which surprised me. I hope you see movies with fresh eyes because you seem so analytical that I wonder if it gets in the way of the experience of watching movies or listening to music etc. Ok, enough babbling.
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Fun with it? For how long did she say? How? This is a mise-en-scène so bleak and humourless (which starts with the clogged toilet which than gets filled with period care and blood!!!) that some later funny moments feel totally off. Like in Saint Maud certain choices are not bold but simply clumsy and/or ill-adviced. Apart from staying alive and not having fallen to the many dangers very young actors face we cannot praise KS. Her range is so limited that most of her acting boils down to being stiff in situations something else would be more appropiate which again is mostly always. Anna Baryshnikov is the only one worth a mentioning. The killing of her character in the final scene is a document of poor directing. Nothing is satirically broken open. So it's only wrong and nasty. Some of the names involved in this mockery will function as the warning as-of-yet.
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I'd love to see a movie about two women who are into each other, that doesn't focus on The Patriarchy, in any way. It jus seems like when ever there's a same sex focused film, the Patriarchy seems to become a main or background theme. For bisexuals who equally like men and women, this can be somewhat of a turn off given the focus on Patriarchy tends to mean a scowl at men on some level, when it could just be a film about the women, and that's it. Like image there's a bunch of films about Golf, but each one of those films has to focus on taking a stab at Buddhism. Like, for what? Lol.
I saw this at the Berlinale and absolutely hated it. A complete waste of time. I have to stop with the A24 shit. After listening to your sceptical take of the film I actually feel more comfortable posting my negative review. :)
Call me cynical but the gratuitous sex scenes you mention, which did nothing to drive our understanding of the characters, were put there to smugly (and crudely) signal the transgressive intent of the film-makers. They were there to tell not show. As you say, the film was very 'on the nose' in many aspects including signalling its one-dimentional feminism by portraying every man in the film as an awful human being. The wife-beating as revenge-driver, for example, had all the subtly of a trashcan falling down a fire-escape. A real eye-roller for me.
it's not just that they are full of weird leftist propaganda... its the corporatization of film. Hollywood movies got so bad that we watched Sasquatch Sunset playing at the multi flex. they're re-releasing old movies too because sth knew hollywood movies suck. Having to appeal to the whole world makes all commercial/mainstream movies kind of bland.
The movie has something to say about no matter how radically you change your life, you still can't outrun who you are, illustrated in the final scene when Lu takes up smoking again. Yes she has this passionate romance with a goddess, yes she's eliminated the "evil" men in her life, yes she's saved her sister, yes she's eluded capture, yes she's freed herself from her life, but calling back to her anti-smoking self-help tapes that say that smoking is a way to stop the feeling of emptiness, she goes right back to smoking in the end after all she's accomplished. So refreshing to get movies that don't stick to stock narratives. Rose Glass's style in this film reminded me of Boots Riley with "Sorry to Bother You" and "I'm a Virgo."
I kinda wonder if she would continue smoking after that though. I feel like when she was forced to actually do the dirty work of killing herself again, it caused her to use the “just for emergency” smoke that Daisy had given her (as she strangles her out and drags her corpse out into the desert).
As a former smoker myself that had a hard time quitting (but it’s been more than a decade since I’ve had one), I remember having moments where I thought “well of course THIS merits a cigarette” that almost wouldn’t even mentally count against the hard work of quitting I was doing. Like a car accident or breakup or something.
Loved Sorry to Bother You… shame that Armie Hammer turned out to be a psycho but I suppose that just adds to his character in this film now. Need to watch I’m a Virgo. Especially as a Virgo myself haha.
@@MrJagermeister That's a good take on the last smoke, I forgot about the foreshadowing with Daisy's line. I'm a Virgo has a lot more in common than both directors' styles, in that they both have that cool visual effect of giants interacting with normal size people. Definitely worth the watch.
That theme of being unable to outrun who you are felt both too on the nose for me and too abstract. It didn't carry any emotional weight for me. Are there any men in the film who aren't 'evil' and irredeemable? Again, too on the nose for me. A feminist film shouldn't have to work so hard to tell you it's feminism.
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Not every film is a message film. This is an atmospheric exercise, it really worked so well for me. I loved the risks it took and thought it was such a fun ride all the way through. If there is a message to be had, I'd say it's a cautionary tale about the dangers of obsessive love. I really enjoyed it!
A lot of films set in the 80's just don't seem as "lived in" as Love Lies Bleeding does. Like they're just trying too hard to be in our face with the 80's aesthetic. Kudos to the production design as there are so many period specific details that just firmly ground it and there's a grit and grime to it all. I need to go back and watch Saint Maud now. I'm an instant fan of Rose Glass. Thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
Her name is Katy M. O’Brian. Never once did you say her real name through the entire review. You knew everyone else’s real name. She’s 2nd billing behind Kristen Stewart, she gave honestly a great breakout performance. Katy M. O’Brian.
i loved this movie. reminded me of brawl in cell block 99 in terms of its pulpiness
What would happen if the Coen Brothers and 70's Scorsese had a ménage à trois? No Country for Young Women would happen, that's what.
I had this exact same critique about this movie when I watched it. Of course the aesthetic is wonderful to look at, but in order for a movie to be truly impactful, we need more than that. I think the Cohen brothers do this particularly well in their movies--They juxtapose sparse landscapes and muted colors with the complex and exciting stories of their characters.
In Love Lies Bleeding, we got a lot of aesthetic and noise, but we don't get the chance to engage with the characters on any type of deeper level. We don't even get to find out what crimes the patriarch of the family partakes in--He's just portrayed as a crime boss that has killed a lot of people. All of those finer points are sacrificed to the almost excessive focus on aesthetic and magical realism, and it left me personally wanting more.
Having just watched it I would tend to agree. The characters don't seem to learn anything or have an kind of arc. I would have been more impressed by this film when I was younger and more easily pleased by style, but as I get older I'm more discerning about emotional truth and this film had about as much of that as a Tarantino movie (Jackie Brown excepted). It's a shame because the quirky characters, acting and aesthetic were all in place for something truly special.
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The ending really fell flat. I would've preferred a more tragic ending.
Agreed, the characters were what made this special. In Saint Maude, I remember being struck by each persona's revealed cruel streak. It felt as though what made these people mean, made them human as well. In this one it was the incredibly bad decision-making on full display that opened up the characters, and no one made more bad decisions than Jackie, the bodybuilder. I like your description of her 'spirit' which belies an innocence concealing formidable contradictions.
She owns the movie's second half. The first half is Lou's: Lonely, working for a father she hates, enraged by a family drama she feels too powerless to control. These are the basic chess pieces, and Lou, who is passive, spends all her time plotting a revenge she'll likely never enact. Then Jackie arrives, and the board explodes.
What a monster... What a beautiful freak... How many people do you think Jackie's killed? My guess is five, including the two we see. She's an original.
10/10
I like the way Rose Glass writes women. She's like the Scorsese of females. Did you know that alongside women's rise to power an increase in the abuse of alcohol by the fairer sex has been documented? Being human has never been easy, but being a female character has often been boring. Glass is doing her best to destroy that tendency.
I thought that Love Lies Bleeding was a superb neo noir for most of its run time, but that it snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the final minutes by going into "A24-ness."
Perfectly said, the movie was really really good but my love for the movie was really deflated by the final minutes. Why do a24 films do stuff like this all the time lol
A "streamline of viscera". Well, as we try to forget the image that summons up....
And,that image is?
I can't believe and be immersed in the love between them, it needs more development to be as deep as the movie is trying to be, so the outcome feels off to me
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To me it makes sense when I tie it to development psychology. They both come from dysfunction during their formative years, and expression of love and depth will not just magically appear. If one doesn’t know how to be tender but has lived within aggression (which is taught), it would make no sense for both of the women’s characters to just from out of nowhere know how to be and express sort of what the norm is within a healthy relationship. They don’t have those tools...yet (, but it could have been written in, a process of them starting to learn how to get the tools and how to use them for a healthy expression and process of emotions). I liked that the focus wasn’t mainly on their love for each other, because life isn’t zoomed in like that- outside of that life continues with ties to other people in different ways. Parallell to them finding each other and connecting, the sister lived through her hell and the father had his things going on and the past ons (?) that was extremely clingy.
This was a beautiful try, according to me, at trying to make a movie that wasn’t one where you knew people’s lines and scenes way ahead of time. The normalalisation process in the domestic violence was nice to see (even if it was so horrendous it was there in the first place the dv). We don’t really see the psychological aspect of domestic violence, which was in this script.
Kristen Stewart mentioned what so many within the lgbtq+ community have mentioned, FINALLY a story that isn’t stuck at self-loathing for being part of the community or trying to convince family/friends/workplace that they can be ok with the character being a part of the lgbtq+ community. This movie offered something way beynd that, it wasn’t even an issue here (in the characters’ view on themselves). No, avoiding of feelings and losing each other out of fear of being genuine in regards of the emotions of a same sex attraction. It felt fresh that they switched things up in so many different way and how geavy they leaned into the åsychology asåect but without being too obvious and risk to make it look dumb/patting the viewer on the head type writing.
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won't lie, it's what made me click on the thumbnail, cuz the movie bruised my brain a bit (in a mindfck way) and I didn't want some superficial or antiwoke/anti-queer critique which wouldn't help me make sense of it. I figured _Watchmen_ might be worth my time.
I sorta agree with the review. I wonder if they have a Dune 2 review now, cuz there's a similar critique about it, except that they really pulled off the aesthetic stuff so we'll that there are (for me) psychological themes expressed through them that the explicit story didn't need to address.
Saint Maud absolutely knocked me out, top 2 film of the decade so far along with Oppenheimer.
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It would have been interesting to hear you dive deeper into WHY it was lacking and HOW it could have met your expactations/desires for this movie. Lately I feel it can ruin an experience if I decide in advance what a movie ”should” offer, and if it doesn’t meet up to those expactations it’s a failure. Maybe movies can have their on thing going on and doesn’t need to follow an already created box?!
I loved this movie and it's became one of my favorite movies already, definitely my favorite movie of the year thus far. The character development was top notch and they all played their roles amazingly making them all feel very authentic to their characters. The movie itself took so many unexpected turns it was anything but predictable and kept you on the edge of your seat almost from start to finish. I would love to see a prequel about Lou Sr. (the dad).
I think Rose Glass has definite potential as a director and I love what she has chosen to tackle thematically so far with her first 2 movies ... but I felt Saint Maud was a much tighter and more solid film overall as a movie whereas Love Lies Bleeding feels a lot more like a somewhat intriguing draft of a potential eventual movie for me. I agree with you in that the first half of LLB is far stronger than the rest of the movie and I wish that all of the major characters had been explored at least a bit more deeply whether internally or in terms of the intersecting relationships. I partially disagree with you on the use of abstractions though ... for me, I would have loved if the use of abstraction and unusual imagery had been more creative and intense and unusual and unexpected and more intrinsically woven throughout the story in both thematic and stylistic ways. I lukewarmly liked the movie overall but had much higher expectations ... perhaps next time.
She is one of so many directors who get hailed as great artists before they are even competent craftsmen. Glass is not devoid of talent, but she has a long way to go before she will make anything important.
I think 'the love in the movie is secondary' when Jackie puts her own love for Lou in the backseat. The more the movie goes on the more and more this crazy plot unfolds but this is also synonymous with Jackie upping her steroid use and progressively getting more aggressive and focused on her physique, even remembering what Lou said when Jackie throws up on stage, "don't bring attention to yourself", yet she still does the exact opposite. It feels like it may be a really intense commentary on the devastating mental effects of steroid use and possibly how that feeling of strength could be a 'high', I think it was a main point, not an addition to help the CGI department. It felt more like, these people love each other so much, but there's this devastating thing (steroids here) that one keeps enabling or even pushing the other to do, and even though they're both okay with it, it creates such dangerous actions that may look like they're done out of love, but are actually done out of an inability to control or reason. At least that's what it felt like to me.
I agree entirely with your review. This flick was a rollercoaster. I was absolutely in love with the first half of the film. The Killer Joe-esque white trashy 80s Texan noir aesthetic was perfect. The acting by the leads was captivating. Ed Harris brought a Bobby Peru level of creepiness to his villain. But my ardour cooled as the movie contrivances and story indulgences piled up, until the plot nose-dived into a flaming ravine (as it were), and I was left feeling similarly frustrated at what felt like a missed opportunity. Then something odd happened: in the final moments, the film lent into its mounting dementia to such an extent that it once again left a smile on my dial as the credits rolled and Stewart took a symbolic drag of her cigarette. Sure, the closing metaphor about giving into past habits was sledgehammer subtle - but somehow it worked for me anyway.
I enjoyed very much Love Lies Bleeding, characters are very interesting, and Cinematic.
I love Saint Maud, so was really looking forward to Rose Glass's next film. From your review, it does sound a bit like how I felt about Trainspotting, which was so self-consciously trying to impress that I couldn't get into the characters or story much. I thought Saint Maud really got into the head of its protagonist and achieved a great balance between psychodrama and horror and used its setting really well. Shame (for me) she has gone to the U.S. but that's where the money is, I suppose. I'll probably give this one a go in the cinemas too.
Saint Maud was an exceptional film (especially that wow of an ending) for the director, so this should definitely be worth a look even if the plot outline doesn’t particularly grab you.
Probably my favorite neo-noir since Killer Joe. Amoral to its core. The most fun I've had in a theater so far this year.
I sincerely hope you don't ever stop posting reviews, you are the best on TH-cam by far. Appreciate everything
Great observation on David Lynch's craft and what distinguishes him.
This movie had potential but fell flat. Saint Maude made an impression on me and ive watched it multiple times but this is a mess that i wont watch again. I'm not sure what you saw in Stewarts performance, she has no range IMO, i found her character too cliche and boring and annoying actually. All of the other characters seemed more interesting. Thanks foe sharing your review.
Best movie ever made, this yr.
I wasn't partichlarly rooting for any of them except Beth, but it was a very engaging portrayal of the self destructive patterns of mounting secrecy, lack of accountability, addiction, and lust. The ending veered a bit too far into the surreal, imo, but I liked the visceral, pulpy vibe of the story and the way it was shot overall. Not in my top 10 of the year like it is for so many others, but I think I definitely get what people see in it. It kinda felt like this year's Uncut Gems in a way.
could you review the film cabrini ?
Excellent summation. Agree 100% and was looking for a more thoughtful take like this. Thank you!
why should it sink it's teeth?
This is such a well written review - fantastic description after seeing this film and looking for review & analysis.
Edit: Wow, looking at the timestamps throughout the video now, it’s so curious and artful in a freaky technological way seeing them jump from “Probably Signs of a False Flag Attack” to mentioning Ukraine and “Misinformation Operation” in some cryptic way seemingly relating to modern war presently or messing with artificial intelligence algorithms or something.
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Definitely more in agreement with your review. It was great for the first half and then lost its way. Many are giving it overall praise just for getting weird the last 45 minutes.
I think what you’re getting at is that there’s no moral center in this movie. I think it should have been Kristen Stewart’s character but obviously that’s totally out the window by the end of the movie and what happens in the very last scene.
That's how I felt; no real characters arcs. Instead it's just pulp, which can work in some circumstances just not this one because the film is too often asking to be taken seriously.
Please review Saint Maud.
I read an almost unreadable Rolling Stone puff piece (more like fluff piece) on Stewart which seemed like an extended advertisement for the film. Didn't really make me any more interested in seeing it.
Rolling Stone hasn't been relevant in decades.
@@sandorx4 Or well written. Or worth reading.
they were trying the grift of claiming there were men mad at it to garner publicity. Right wingers took the photos and they were saying, "look at this. She doesn't look as good as she used to...." It's a right wing talking point they do but it isn't hate. IT's about presenting oneself, but the studio wanted to make a hate controversy.
This movie is kind of the ultimate example of a "nice try" movie for me. I admire its pretentions and daring and originality, I admire it trying to do something a little different. I don't quite think it works. But it's interesting and I'd like to see more from this director.
One of the rare occasions i kinda agree with every point you made
Can us people send you dvd’s of movies to review that not many people talk about(for a fee)?
What’s your advice for someone who wants to review movies on TH-cam? I’m afraid I’m not going to be good at it
Man up
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Really enjoyed your review/analysis of this movie
I love your reviews bro
I have not seen Love Lies Bleeding but already wish James Franco played Dave's part, cuz you know. All movies have movie tropes, if you view them as such. I think we all see the tropes if the story itself is weak. And some movies are all tropes but draw you in, like Star Wars. Not sure if you reviewed The Holdovers so I will have to check but that is by far the best movie I have seen in a long time, there is dialog said even by side ancillary characters that are priceless, the writing is so great. I actually shed tears watching it which surprised me. I hope you see movies with fresh eyes because you seem so analytical that I wonder if it gets in the way of the experience of watching movies or listening to music etc. Ok, enough babbling.
The ending took me by surprise.
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You're always incredibly deep and intriguing. I love it so much! If you were local, I likely would attempt to hangout together. I would invite you to Dave & Busters.
You're probably thinking, "What?"😮😅
I am patiently waiting like a loyal dog at the foot of your dinner table, for your review of
The Boy and The Heron
Will I be rewarded?
dude wtf
@@theweedsupreme what?
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You've never had a patient dog that knew he would get bacon by waiting instead of bothering?
My favorite movie reviewers. Keep it up!
I love this channel because it provokes thoguht for my own writings.
Old Thelma and Luis feel
Have you seen One Life?
Fun with it? For how long did she say? How? This is a mise-en-scène so bleak and humourless (which starts with the clogged toilet which than gets filled with period care and blood!!!) that some later funny moments feel totally off. Like in Saint Maud certain choices are not bold but simply clumsy and/or ill-adviced. Apart from staying alive and not having fallen to the many dangers very young actors face we cannot praise KS. Her range is so limited that most of her acting boils down to being stiff in situations something else would be more appropiate which again is mostly always. Anna Baryshnikov is the only one worth a mentioning. The killing of her character in the final scene is a document of poor directing. Nothing is satirically broken open. So it's only wrong and nasty. Some of the names involved in this mockery will function as the warning as-of-yet.
Great review, great movie! Not perfect but certainly a fun time
I also really wanted to love it...I didn't need the family drama
Love Lies Bleeding is he Turner And Hooch of 2024. 😂
Did you like Saint Maud?
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Great review.
Great review
Had to pause to roll my eyes at T h e P a t r i a r c h y, pause the video for a few minutes then plough on. Love this channel. So bored with T h e M e s s a g e
Please review Past Lives
Love your videos
?maybe you could do a reaction video of the movie? That would be more interesting than this intellectual discussion video
I'd love to see a movie about two women who are into each other, that doesn't focus on The Patriarchy, in any way. It jus seems like when ever there's a same sex focused film, the Patriarchy seems to become a main or background theme. For bisexuals who equally like men and women, this can be somewhat of a turn off given the focus on Patriarchy tends to mean a scowl at men on some level, when it could just be a film about the women, and that's it. Like image there's a bunch of films about Golf, but each one of those films has to focus on taking a stab at Buddhism. Like, for what? Lol.
I didn't like this movie at all. Super poor script
I saw this at the Berlinale and absolutely hated it. A complete waste of time. I have to stop with the A24 shit. After listening to your sceptical take of the film I actually feel more comfortable posting my negative review. :)
zzzzzzzzzzzzz (this review) (sorry, but i dislike when people want another movie basically)
Call me cynical but the gratuitous sex scenes you mention, which did nothing to drive our understanding of the characters, were put there to smugly (and crudely) signal the transgressive intent of the film-makers. They were there to tell not show. As you say, the film was very 'on the nose' in many aspects including signalling its one-dimentional feminism by portraying every man in the film as an awful human being. The wife-beating as revenge-driver, for example, had all the subtly of a trashcan falling down a fire-escape. A real eye-roller for me.
This film was amazing. Nobody cares why. It just is.
A24 all the way.
Owned by Daniel katz....guy on epsteins list. Stop funding their evil shit
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Make Movies Great Again
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it's not just that they are full of weird leftist propaganda... its the corporatization of film. Hollywood movies got so bad that we watched Sasquatch Sunset playing at the multi flex. they're re-releasing old movies too because sth knew hollywood movies suck. Having to appeal to the whole world makes all commercial/mainstream movies kind of bland.
I dont like your channel.
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My immediate thought about 10:40 was: blood as a fluid that circulates versus air that is absorbed [subsumed or assimilated?] 🫀🆚🫁?
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Dracula.😊
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