#191

:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

#192

I saw them last year. The Lie and three others were released at the same time or within a week of each other.

Nocturne and Black Box were the better ones.

#193

Oh I didnt realise it was part of that thing, might explain why some places have it classed as a horror when it isnt at all

#194

how come? can understand not being into it, it is quite try hard in places, but don’t think it is the archetypical quirky romcom as it was a comment on quirky romcoms

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#195

I found it to be unbearably smug and contrived. This is a good comment on romcoms

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#196

fyi you put this in the wrong thread man

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#197

yeah totally understand finding it grating, just dont think it is an archetypal film to compare others to

#198

If that’s the case, and I’m skeptical, I feel like it’s trying to have its cake and eat it too. It’s played sufficiently straight to just read as a quirky romcom about an unbearable dickhead and a manic pixie dream girl. It’s between this and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist for the worst of That Bunch of films imo

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#199

I think it had its cake and then didnt eat it. I don’t think it was a romcom as the characters dont get together in the end. The manic pixie dream girl is a problematic trope not because of character quirks but because the woman is just there as part of the man’s story, to fulfil the man’s needs, with no depth of characterisation or needs of their own. This was the exact opposite of that, the Tom character wanted summer to play the mpdg role in his life, she wanted none of that as she was her own person with completely different priorities, the film was anti the mpdg trope

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#200

That’s an interesting and convincing read of the film and if I hadn’t hated it so much I’d rewatch it through that lens.

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#201

Yeah totally get finding the film irksome

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#202

anyone got that french haneke bluray box? trying to decide if it’s worth it for the amount of them that have english subtitles.

#203

Watched Saint Maud while I was on holiday last week.
Fuck me, I thought it was really really good but it creeped me the fuck out. Like so bad. I do mind admitting, but will anyway, that I was too scared to go upstairs on my own afterwards. The night we watched the film AND the following night.
There was way more sinister stuff than this bit but when the dying woman’s face suddenly contorts into that ghoulish devil just before Maud kills her is still haunting me occasionally, 7 days later. When films do that it really fucks me up.

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#204

Does Jennifer’s Body deserve the reappraisal it starting getting a few years back? Guess I’ll find out

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#205

Saint Maud was a movie that stuck with me for some time after too, it was on my mind for several weeks. Truly haunting.

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#206

And that’s just it being filmed in Scarborough

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#207

Saint Maud… have I mentioned…no, I won’t this time

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#208

what? pray tell

#209

watched it for the first time this year, pretty great film!

#210

Had a great run over the last few days: AI: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg), Pickpocket (Bresson), Tree of Life (Mallick), Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog) and Safe (Haynes). Loved them all apart from Safe which has an amazing first half but the second really lets it down.