My Tuppence Worth
What I Thought Of The Three Movies I Watched Recently:
Junebug
Amazing. Amy Adams really did deserve that Oscar nom, she's luminous. Not a lot of storyline but that doesn't even matter, because it's a gorgeous little indie movie with fantastic performances from everyone.
Lovely. The kind of movie I wish I could make.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
A weird one, because there's no happy ending - there's nothing really happy in this at all. It tells the story of Jeremiah, who is dragged up screaming my his f**ked up mother, Sarah - who abandons him as often as she snatches him away from any semblance of normality. All the horrific things that could happen to a child do happen to Jeremiah - and I'm just not sure if I liked the movie.
It's based on the book by J.T. LeRoy, which I read and there's a sequel called Sarah, so maybe there'll be a sequel to the movie too, so you don't feel so left in the air and helpless but, hmmm.
It's crude and jarring - but it's well acted. And there is some cool animation in it.
Probably my favourite of the lot. Very very weird and surreal - and hard to follow if you don't stay with it, because in each section the main character, Aviva, is played by a drastically different actress.
Basically, Aviva just wants to have a baby and will stop at nothing to get pregnant, with sad consequences.
Plus Todd Solondz directed it and I'm a long-term fan of his work.
See it, it's cool. But weird.
3 comments:
I can't watch something that's hard to follow. I want to be entertained - not think LOL Glad you enjoyed them!
Palindromes is AWESOME! I saw it at the London Film Fest about 2 years ago and met Todd Solondz...in fact I commented on the fact that he was wearing cool trainers...we had a moment.
You are so lucky, he's one of my heroes! I am green (GREEN I tells ya) with envy!
Methinks we have very similar taste in flick, which is cool.
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