cinephile on a roll

25 year old film student My thoughts on the movies I watch

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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)

dir. Ariane Louis-Seize

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April 6th, 2026: The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli, 2026, United States)

I really, really liked this. I loved the editing, the sporadic back and forth between past, present and fantasy. I loved the writing, I think this is really funny, some scenes had me actually slapping my knee. I really liked the artistic direction of the apartment - especially a fan of the poster of Ingmar Bergman's Shame on the wall of their dining room only being seen when Charlie comes home in his bloodied tux, having just humiliated himself and his bride with his speech, and not a second before. I think the performances are really good as well because Pattinson has never been bad in his life, and I think this is one of Zendaya's best performances to date - there's one close up of her face during the confession scene that I thought was really solid. This movie also made me realize there is not much I wouldn't be able to forgive like my girlfriend could do anything and I would stand by her fr... anyway only thing I might have done differently is Emma's dad's speech... who brings up gun violence in his toast at his daughter's wedding? Like I understand he was trying to bring up the fact that she's an activist who is passionate and caring, but he really goes into details specifically about gun violence. I thought that was kind of strange, and it felt unnatural for me, but I don't know. Overall: really fun time, really well made, I recommend.

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March 29th, 2026: Bring It On (Peyton Reed, 2000, United States)

We are not breaking any visual grounds with this movie, but that is okay! It redeems itself by being funny and entertaining. During one of the competition sequences, I told my girlfriend "we should just attend cheer competitions," because we were so sold on the choreographies. I really liked the costuming in this, but that's just because I love the y2k aesthetic, like they are not doing anything especially new or fun with it. I liked the ending, with the team not winning the nationals ; I enjoy when movies don't have the perfect ending, it's more realistic and grounds the story more.

There's at least one homophobic slur per scene, which you would think would bring down my appreciation of the movie severely, but it's always funny so I'm genuinely not mad about it. My only gripe with the movie is that they didn't have Missy and Torrance get gay with it. (I'm kind of assuming Missy is written to be a lesbian because she gets called a d*ke like at least five times and she never really objects to the term, so we're halfway there really.)

Overall just a really fun movie like don't take it seriously and you'll have the time of your life.

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March 27th, 2026: Him (Justin Tipping, 2025, United States)

So, unlike a lot of modern films, this movie is visually very impressive. I saw some shots I'd never seen before in any other movie ; I especially liked the "x-ray" shots and there's this one scene in the first half of the movie where two players bump heads super hard and it looks like there's blood spilling everywhere it's super cool. They do it again in the second half, but it's less impressive cause you've already seen it, but it's still really sick. They also had a lot of fun with colours which is great. I think the production design was really solid, especially during the more "nightmare" like sequences, and I did enjoy the design of the different mascots. Huge fan of the two little freaks with footballs for heads in that one scene that crawled on all fours, that was creepy. Last compliment : Julia Fox was delightful as always (TO ME!!!) and her like 5 minutes of screentime were my favourites of the whole movie essentially. And I love her bleached eyebrows.

SO! Wonderful, this film looks good, and??? Well, nothing else. I feel like Marlon Wayans was severely miscast in this ; I couldn't really take him seriously as a threatening antagonist. I also thought Tyriq Withers gave a pretty boring performance with very little nuance, felt very one note. This is probably one of the least scary horror movies I've ever watched ; very little tension, very few scares. It has small, tiny creepy moments that don't really serve the narrative in any meaningful way. The big reveal at the end was unsurprising, and the ending..."battle" on the field was suuuuper bad and, at least to me, felt unrewarding because I never gave a fuck about the main character in the first place (re: Withers' performance), like I wasn't itching for him to free himself of this situation. There is some very very very cringe dialogues in this... They got characters genuinely saying shit like "They're saying you could be the next GOAT," to each other. But I think, ultimately, this movie's worst flaw is that it doesn't really know what it wants to say. I spent like like 3/4 of the film's runtime thinking it was commenting on toxic masculinity and the lengths men will go to to prove to each other that they are Real Men, but then, at the end, the movie kind of flips and is like... "the problem was.....cults (and therefore corruption), actually!!!" I think it would've been a lot more impactful if the movie had stuck to the ultimate conflict being between Cade and White personally (as men), and not between Cade and An Evil Sports Team, Suddenly.

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March 27th, 2026: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (Gore Verbinski, 2025, United States / Germany)

I was expecting to love this and it did not disappoint. This film looks good, is well edited, well acted, the soundtrack is fun, I really like the sounds his plastic suit makes, and the production design and costuming are solid.

I think I could understand why one would think perhaps the writing is a bit heavy handed, and I agree that there's a definite lack of subtly here, but I found it both charming and effective. The flashbacks in particular feel alarmist, exaggerated and kind boomer in nature at first, but I actually don't think they're that far off. I see children with phones in their hands watching AI slop videos on the bus all the time. They launched an app that makes an AI avatar of your loved ones. We have people (not our brightest, but still) falling in love with ChatGPT and other generative AI chatbots. So yes, I think the world that is presented to us in this movie is exaggerated, no doubt, but it is not unrealistic. When Sam Rockwell says something among the lines of, "Where did all the bookstores go? What did you do when all the record stores started disappearing?" at the, like, 5 minute mark, I knew it had me no matter how cheesy it got lmao. I started working in a bookstore / record store 3 and a half years ago. I was hired as the record score guy ; I classify all the CDs, DVDs, vinyls. I used to work full time there - 9 hours day, 4 days a week - my section took up almost half the store I would have work to do all day. Since then, my section has been reduced to a corner at the back of the store, costumers often have to ask us if the section even exists anymore because they can't see it from the front of the store. And I have maybe one shift a week in it because there is so little to do there now. I have costumers now asking me if I have albums from AI artists and, a few times a week, I have to disappoint an elderly person and tell them the artist they're requesting just does not exist. This is what we're up against. It's stealing from us ; our art, our critical thinking skills, and our natural resources.

So yeah, the movie gets a little cheesy, a little on the nose. With that said, I thought the twist at the end was good, and while the way it's written (we need to stop having characters say "Haven't you figured it out yet?" before big reveals) is... not great, the message of choosing real human life over whatever people think AI can offer us as a species is so commendable that I can't be too mad about it. Certainly when a lot of the biggest institutions in the movie industry (Disney, Netflix, etc) keep investing in AI instead of refusing to let it infect art, and we are actively seeing the people around us get dumber over their use of generative AI chatbots.

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March 27th, 2026: Send Help (Sam Raimi, 2026, United States)

So this was in no way bad, but it also never for a single second is good. Another one of those movies that take no risks visually or narratively that have become so prevalent in the streaming era. That's interesting because this was a theatre exclusive release, but you have to agree that since Netflix Originals exist movies have gotten uglier. It does something interesting with its cinematography twice, in the first 10 minutes of the movie and does not try it ever again, which I thought was a bummer. Also, I don't know if you remember this, but movies used to have depth of field! Anyway, At least it didn't fall prey to grayscale, but man I just wish movies put more efforts into looking good and not just being filmed.

I think probably the screenwriters watched Yellowjackets, really fucked with Misty's vibe and just decided to write a fanfiction lmao. "Awkward, unfunny nerd who nobody likes is super intense about her job and knows everything there is to know about survival, also owns a bird who is her only friend." But I kind of like it, it made me smile. The twist at the end was super predictable, and not in a "they did they're jobs and dropped subtle hints" kind of way, but more-so in a "the very second a specific narrative element is mentioned, you know exactly where it will lead" kind of way.

I think its kind of tired to cast one of the world's most beautiful woman as the 'ugly nerd' stereotype... I know she gets like hotter once they're on the island but surely you can give anyone a little glowup to achieve that like we could've had a more interesting casting choice here. Let women be ugly!!! That being said, Rachel McAdams absolutely delivers in this I thought she did a really good job. Dylan O'Brien is there also! I kind of can't get past his physicality, for some reason.

Other than that... It made me giggle a couple of times, and the few times there was gore, they really went for it which I thought was cool, but I would've liked for the characters to be put in more dire situations, like I would've loved to see an amputation or something lmao. Also the CGI looked pretty bad, and that was okay when it was just like the plane crash that looked a little off, but when the boar came in and it looked super cartoonish it really threw me off.

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March 24th, 2026: Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022, United Kingdom / United States)

Not gonna say much cause we all know this movie is incredible. To me, personally, one of the best looking movie released this century - colours have never looked more striking. Beautifully written, shot, edited and acted. Can't wait to see whatever Wells does in the future.

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March 23rd, 2026: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett, 2026, United States)

Funny that I watched two horror movies featuring Elijah Wood and Shawn Hatosy in the span of 24 hours, both times having no idea they were in the movie I decided to watch.

Anyway this film isn't good but it also isn't bad... It feels like God said, "Create the most average movie ever," and this just appeared out of thin air. First of all, and this isn't a flaw of the movie itself, more of an observation as to why the movie might be... like that... but it's very clear that they made this movie simply because of the sheer amount of social media posts that pointed out how clever it would be if they made a sequel titled Here I Come...and, see, they even managed to fuck that up.

Onto the real subject matter, though... I am so tired of movies that look like nothing lmaooooo. This film does not attempt to have any kind of visual identity (this is an issue I seem to have a lot with Searchlight movies for some reason). The director of photography, god bless their soul, just showed up on set every day and kept deciding to do absolutely nothing interesting. It doesn't help that the costume design was just bad and that the production design did not try at all to create any sort of atmosphere with its sets...so of course the DP didn't have much to work with. I have to go back a little here on my gripe with the general art direction of this movie... We are talking about a satanic cult that loooooves to do human sacrifices... Why is NOTHING creepy??? You have a satanic ritual happening and you dress your character in a "slay queen" dress with a shiny choker and shiny spikes on her head that act as a crown and her face is painted to the gods... like what are we doing here?? Give her an old dress, passed down from generations of evil women, give her a complex necklace made of old bones and hair and teeth - same with the crown. Let her look like she just spent the last 24 hours of her life fighting non-stop - bloody, tired, scared. THIS IS A HORROR MOVIE!!!! Same thing with the rest of the sect - they were all in their brand new golden robes, not a speck of blood on them. You want these guys to have old tattered robes, weird masks made of an amalgam of things that obviously used to be alive. You want them to be chanting in a strange language and speaking in tongues!!! I also thought there was some pretty clunky writing, but it's mostly contained some very bad expository dialogues in the first half of them movie and some... interesting decision making from one of the characters in the second half of it. Now these are almost all issues I also had with the first movie, but it was forgivable because the movie was fun! And it was an original idea. The thing with sequels, for me at least, is that you need to convince me that it deserved to be made, that it had a purpose, storytelling wise, that you genuinely had something more to say and that you are not doing this movie solely to make money off a concept that worked really well the first time around. This movie did not convince me it deserved to exist and that it was made for creative purposes.

Now!!!!! It has some really solid moments too. I think all of the cast is really solid and Samara Weaving brilliantly pulls off playing a traumatized and exhausted and suffering woman from the very start of the movie. She does not get a moment to be normal and so I have to give her her flowers for that. I also loved Kathryn Newton in this, but I love her in most of the things she's done - she has so much charisma and I loved every second she was on screen. The film is also pretty funny, it made me laugh a lot of the time and the pepper spray scene is genuinely brilliant. The fight scenes were cool and really kept you on your toes and the editing during those scenes was also pretty solid.

As I am writing this, I realize that I liked this film less than I thought I did, but I still will stand on my opinion that it's a decent movie that is worth the watch if you want to just have a good time for an hour and fifty minutes without having to think about anything too much. It fulfills its purpose as entertainment!

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March 23rd, 2026: The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez, 1998, United States)

Put this on at midnight, thinking I was going to fall asleep to it within the first 10 minutes, but it managed to keep my attention the whole way through somehow lmao. The fun thing about this is that it's a bad movie that's also really good. It has basically no visual identity that sets it apart from other films of its genre, it's not very well written (although the line "I'm not aware of any lesbianism in my lineage." kind of changed my life), the dynamics between the characters are pretty inconsistent in the first half, the score is a little cheesy, and some editing choices are just terrible. Also Josh Hartnett has a reallllyyy bad haircut in this I don't know why they went in that direction for his character... also he has a happy ending that's like "the hot but super submissive (???) teacher wants to fuck him now" which is fucking crazy but it was produced by Harvey Weinstein so go figure.

Putting all of that aside, it has one of the most stacked cast ever put on film, everyone and their mom is in this. It's also good because it's a genre of film that just doesn't really exist anymore for some reason ; cool and freaky horror for teens, made in a genuine attempt to engage with them. Yes, it still relies on tired stereotypes, but it does try to make the characters more layered than they usually are in the average teen movie. It also does this thing that's kind of reminiscent of the "found family" trope without really being one ; a bunch of characters who do not get along build chemistry and work together towards a common goal and it's really satisfying to watch as a viewer...until they all start getting infected one by one, of course. The tension is also built pretty well and you do feel like the stakes are high from the very start of the movie. Maybe that's why I stayed awake.

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March 22nd, 2026: Tár (Todd Field, 2022, United States / Germany)

What a cool and confusing movie lmao. My friend chose this as our watch for movie night this week out of sheer curiosity. I'd watched it three years ago and remembered most of it, but I was super curious to see how I would feel about it a few years later, and I think it's actually better the second time around.

The colour scheme of the whole movie is very grey and brown, and there's really barely any colours in any of the sets or costumes, lending a very serious and grave visual identity to it. I love the performances and the way barely nobody ever smiles genuinely ; at one point Olga smiles very brightly during a rehearsal scene and I remembered thinking it was out of place and felt almost jarring to see. This movie profoundly lacks real and genuine joy, and that's what makes it so good. We're looking at the life of one of the most respected orchestra conductors of modern times, but the success does not make anyone happy and actually makes everyone much sadder than you would expect them to be. Because of this success, Lydia is able to use her power to coerce and manipulate others, constantly alienating those closest to her because she's so busy playing mind-games and trying to get her way at all costs. Also, the ending of this movie is aging so well and we've kind of seen it replicated so many times in real life at this point. Like Jonathan Major doing a film for fucking Ben Shapiro's production company - having to turn to the lowest form of your art because of how little respect you have from your peers. Todd Field was seeing the future.

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March 22nd, 2026: First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017, United States)

This is Paul Schrader's masterpiece. I'm not usually a fan of his ; his movies are very hit or miss (with a penchant for miss) and every time he expresses an opinion online I want to nuke him, but this is undeniably one of the best movies produced this century lmao.

The two most striking things to me about this movie is the cinematography and the writing, so let's talk about them.

The movie simply would not be as good if it wasn't for the 1.33:1 aspect ratio. It puts the character in a tight, almost oppressive box which mirrors the story of inescapable, impending doom. The camera almost never moves, it stays steady and has an almost impersonal relationship with the characters it's filming. When it does move, it is calm and purposeful. The colours are drab ; we're mostly dealing with greys and browns, and the few colours that do show up are watered down and drained of life. This works in the movie's favour, of course. I don't think you can make a movie about the rapid destruction of our planet in the name of greed and have every frame be vibrant and beautiful. The whole point is we've made our planet ugly and we've stolen what made her beautiful for ourselves after all. (I will be using the only colourful frame of the movie as my little picture here because it's objectively the best, but trust me the rest of the film looks sad and lifeless.)

The best part of this film, though, is the writing. A masterclass. The fact that this lost the Oscar for best original screenplay to fuck ass Green Book makes me feel violent. One of those situations that make the Academy look like an institution that does not deserve its reputation anymore. So, anyway, yeah, this is superbly written. I love the way Toller's illness and the destruction of the planet mirror each other ; we can try to ignore those problems, but they are inevitable and they will kill us in time. I love the philosophical and theological questions that are raised - will God forgive us? I love the framing of the small church that no one attends but that used to stand for what's right being controlled by the megachurch who is in cahoots with a giant, polluting corporation. Every one involved turning a blind eye, even going as far as saying, "We don't know what God's plan is, maybe he does want us to destroy his greatest creation," to look away from the involvement the church has had in this mass destruction. I love this line : "How often we ask for genuine experience when all we really want is emotion." Just incredibly layered and important and beautiful.

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March 19th, 2026: Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2026, United States)

I tried reading the book this is based off of last year and I didn't make it past the first, like, ten pages. I'm an adult, and quirky protagonist humour à la Deadpool just comes off as cringe to me at this point in time, so I decided the book wasn't for me. I wasn't really sold on the movie either at first ; I don't really have faith in big budget studio movies anymore, and who needs another space movie? But as the reviews came in I saw it was being received overwhelmingly well and I thought I'd give it a shot.

And I'm really glad I did! This movie is far from perfect ; its third act is way too long (it has like 3 different endings), some of the humour felt a little dated (grown man screaming in a high pitched voice out of distress hasn't been funny since at least like 2017), some editing choices felt a little clunky, and I dislike endings that are too happy because they always kind of shatter my suspension of disbelief.

THAT BEING SAID! It is one of the most visually beautiful movies made this decade. Nearly every frame uses the colors of the sets to its adventage and there's some pretty creative shots in there too. This movie could've easily been set in a texture-less grey box, but the production design did a really good job with the spaceship. The score was also really good and it really succeed in making the audience feel. The performances were good, my highlight was, of course, Sandra Hüller, who plays the "humourless german" stereotype really funnily and who generally has a very nice and calming aura throughout the film, very firm and comforting. Yes, I have mommy issues. (Also, I never thought I would say this sentence in my life, but Hüller outsings Harry Styles on one of his own songs in this movie). But what really ties it all together and makes it a genuinely good movie is its soul. A very poignant message about the fragility of life, and the importance of love, solidarity, and bravery. Very touching.

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March 18th, 2026: Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve, 2021, United States)

Obviously watching this out of sheer excitement for the third instalment after the trailer dropped yesterday. Nothing I have to say hasn't been said before but still.

Obviously, it's the most boring of the two movies we have so far. Maybe it's a pacing and editing issue, but I'm thinking it's probably more that the source material is so difficult to adapt that you kind of just had to make the first part less entertaining in order to get a second part that feels incredibly rewarding. David Lynch tried to get it all done and over with in 2 hours 15 minutes and that didn't pan out well so like overall I think this movie is just Denis being smart about how he wanted to tell the story and you really can't be too mad about it since everything else is so well executed. The performances are great, the cinematography is beautiful, the sound design is absolutely insane, the production design is astoundingly impressive, costuming creates some of my favorite garments i've seen in a movie (this is all true for both parts and from the trailer probably the 3rd one too). Just like... genuine achievement in film making, this series is.

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March 16th, 2026: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999, United States / United Kingdom)

I had seen this movie many years ago and I frankly did not remember much, but I did remember thinking nothing really happened and well... that still holds true lmao. Not that it's a bad movie, I think it's actually pretty good it's just like not that interesting. I liked the cinematography for sure, the way everyone interact with each other by flirting, and it's nothing new but Nicole Kidman is absolutely incredible and is underutilized. I also really liked Alan Cumming's like 2 minutes of screen time, very enjoyable to watch.

Apart from that, like I said, I think it's a pretty boring watch. The opening scene kind of sets you up for a Cruise/Kidman duo and they have something super interesting going on between them energy wise and then like.... you barely see her for the rest of the movie. I understand that's just not what the story was supposed to be, but it's still disappointing to see such a strong performance from her at the beginning and then to just be left with Cruise, who isn't bad... but who definitely isn't Nicole Kidman. Otherwise, this movie is just Cruise going around, not finding the people he wants to find, talking to other people, bargaining/offering money, showing his medical license... it's just not interesting. And that's really the movie's only problem like it's super well made otherwise.

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March 13th, 2026: undertone (Ian Tuason, 2026, United States)

Okay so I liked this, it had some really strong moments but it was also lacking in a lot of ways.

The good: I looove creepy religious symbolism, like it's a classic but it always works for me, love old pictures/paintings/drawings that look wrong on a spiritual level and I think the movie's production design did well with it. I felt Nina Kiri really did a good job in this also, certainly considering she basically had to act alone the entire time. The sound design was really cool and I think (unfortunately) carried the entire horror aspect of the movie, really good stuff nonetheless. There are 3 very good moments in this where I leaned in and was like "okay now it's getting good", but each time the film failed to keep its momentum going. Which brings me to...

The bad: Something I love about horror is that it has it's own unique cinematographic language that was created tension and eventually scare the shit out of your audience. Here, this language is used perfectly, but you barely get the reward of being visually scared after sitting through 5 minutes of mounting tension. The camera slowly pans away from the main character, revealing dark corners of the house, where nothing scary is hiding. The camera moves away from the character, revealing that nothing / no one is looming behind her. The few times you do get to see what is haunting her, it's just a normal ass shot lmao. And then there's the writing, which is like, criticizing a horror movie for it's subpar writing might feel tired because the movie needs the actions of the characters to make little sense for it to work, but we've had some really solid horror movies over the last few years that have proven to us that you can actually write a horror movie that makes sense so. This girl (Evy) is being haunted ; objects keep moving, lights are turning on unprompted and she does not talk about it to anyone and also just never seems to really care....She kinda frowns and keeps going about her day. She's taking care of her mom who's in a coma, at one point her mom "falls" from her bed while Evy's out. Literally the next scene, Evy hears a loud thud from her mom's room and she's just like "hmm what might that be..." and she takes a long ass time to get upstairs, I feel like anyone would've been like shit my mom just fell on the floor again and gotten there as fast as possible. Also, at one point she and her friend Justin are recording a podcast episode and they have to pause because Evy's not feeling good and they go like "hmm I can't do monday, so let's keep recording tuesday," they both agree, great. We get to tuesday, they record maybe 10 minutes of content if I'm being generous and Evy starts not feeling great again and Justin goes like "that's alright I have to get to work anyway" like girl!!!! why did you schedule to record the rest of your podcast episode today then... So yeah i'm not mad at the horror movie for being a horror movie, like of course she was never gonna leave the house, but like these little mistakes could've been avoided as they have no consequences on the story itself.

So yeah, this was a good time and I was scared, but I felt it could've been pushed further. I'm excited to see what the director comes up with next cause like, yeah, I'm complaining, but it's because some parts were so good that I'm annoyed some parts weren't you know.

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March 10th, 2026: Gaz Bar Blues (Louis Bélanger, 2003, Québec)

Decided to watch this because my friend who's opinion I value most in the world said if she could only watch one movie for the rest of her life it would be this one. I don't fully agree with her perspective lmao but I can understand why she loves this movie so much. I think this is a good movie in the sense that everything is done very correctly, but nothing is a particular standout either. Like we did not break barriers making this.

The cinematography is just fine (although I'll always love the look of film before cameras went digital, so there's a little something there that's still special), the editing is fine, the production design is fine. I did enjoy the costume design for some reason, even though it really was nothing special, it still stuck out to me. The acting is really good, you really get to feel the bond between the different members of the family (for the most part). Then, obviously, I think this is pretty decently written, after all, this is what the acting is hanging on to and it delivers what needs to be delivered although I do have some gripes with it.

It's mostly how the women are treated, I think... Like essentially we're following a father trying to keep the family business alive with the help of his three sons who all clearly don't want to be doing this and it's tearing the family and the business apart and oh he also has a daughter. She's in maybe four...five scenes and her only job in each of those scenes is just to be nice. The father struggles to get a hold of his sons, each pulling away in different directions, but the daughter just pops in every once in a while and is nice. I don't understand why she wasn't fleshed out more as a character and her neutral presence feels jarring in the middle of this family of men who are searching for themselves. Who is she? What does she want? Why is her father absolutely indifferent about her involvement in the family business? We'll never know. The other thing is that this movie takes place a few months after the children's mother dies and it is only mentioned once, in passing, during a voice-over expository monologue at the start of the movie. Never again is that woman referred to... her passing has no lasting effect on her husband, her children, or the business they ran as a family... Alright I guess!

All that being said this is a good movie, very enjoyable, makes you feel warm and very québecois, which I love. Also Sébastien Delorme in this movie is the best a man has ever looked onscreen. So it's worth watching for that at the very least.

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March 3rd, 2026: Resurrection (Bi Gan, 2025, China)

Well, I think this movie is perfect. I could probably write like a million words on it, but let's just cut to the chase. I've rarely seen such an incredible control of the form in a movie ; every frame is gorgeous and every set is full of textures and details. I loved the steady and controlled way the camera moved through the environment. The writing was brilliant and I will need a rewatch or two to fully comprehend what is going on because it's super layered and also I don't know if the translation I had from my pirating site was that good lmao. All in all, incredible achievement in movie-making, astoundingly beautiful in every way.