Posts Tagged ‘Isabella Rossellini’
Film Review – Closet Monster
Is it actually possible to dislike a movie in which the great Isabella Rossellini voices a pet hamster called Buffy? Well, I don’t think so. That’s why Stephen Dunn‘s coming-of-age tale Closet Monster (2015) had me after a few minutes. That, however, doesn’t mean that…
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An Analysis – A Closer Look Into Enemy
***Warning: the following contains massive spoilers*** – Chaos is order yet undeciphered – When I first walked out of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy (2013), I was over come with different emotions: befuddlement, confusion, and most all fascination. I knew I had witnessed something special, a tightly…
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Film Review – Enemy
There’s a moment early on when history teacher Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is watching a movie in his apartment alone. His face is draped in apathy. Having rented the movie at the suggestion of a coworker, Adam seems to exude really little interest beyond it…
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Film Review – Chicken With Plums
Chicken with Plums tells the story of Nasser-Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric), a concert violinist in 1950s Tehran. His treasured violin has been broken, and he cannot find satisfaction in any other instrument, not even a Stradivarius he has gone to great lengths to acquire. Life…
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