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The Hateful Eight (2015)
Sympathetic Tarantino
Sympathetic Tarantino
The 8 bastards is a very nice closed eight as long as we like the pleasurable dialogues of our dear Quentin, with his little reference to "The Thing" by John Carpenter (even in music!! And of course Kurt Russell) difficult to deny his pleasure.
The characters are all well done and this little game of cluedo offers its share of surprise while navigating in a kind of small synthesis of all its other films. The only criticism I can make to him is that he tells for once not much this time in terms of subject, except the tribute sum, quite obvious of all his cinema.
After it is undeniably a guilty pleasure, Quentin still having as much talent in these tasty dialogues punctuated by scenes still so enjoyable (the surprise poisoning what a diabolical foot coupled with a visual shock as funny as powerful), walking us easily in her new dog tank. In the end I remember a closed eight, very successful to spend a good evening, but which forgets to be a little more and does not tell in the end not much this time.
Past Lives (2023)
A touching romance on the nostalgia of our childhood loves.
Here is a film that looks nothing, offers a beautiful evening, full of sincerity and missed opportunity. Very well played and an irreproachable aesthetic, hard not to be touched by this feeling, that we all knew one day.
The staging fits with the passing of time, we navigate in space as we navigate in our lives, our choices, our hopes and our regrets. There is something very poetic and somewhat tragic in all this and it was difficult for me not to be touched by its final which is as simple as successful.
A film that is as touching as it is just, offering a point of view on expatriation and the roots of feelings, while offering a nice surprise on the veracity of feelings through a life and the choices that result.
Like the characters, I didn't see the time pass...
Hausu (1977)
You must see House!!
House is an incredible experience, which any cinephile will have a hard time not loving. Incredibly modern, it pauses here and there all the basics of the slasher before Halloween and yet it is not one, well not completely, it touches Suspiria before Suspiria but it is rather an Evil Dead before Evil Dead? Nothing, I won't tell you anything about the story, you need to see House.
Inventive to the extreme, full of absolutely brilliant and very aesthetic staging process that amuses to deceive us with these trumpets the permanent eye that questions the reality of our reality, our desires and our fantasies, lined with a symbolism that mixes all ages and styles in a train launched at 100 per hour!
You must see House, so far ahead of his time, it is an absolutely fascinating theatre of all our modern influences in a spectacular horror comedy. So yes it's very Japanese too, and that you have to like. But if the answer is yes, you will have an amazing time and the final offers its share of whaaaat? OMG!! Yes, definitely, you need to see House.
Turist (2014)
Effect: Snowball
The foreground of the film is in the image of this family photo, detached which is taken by the arms under the idea of the photographer but not of their own accord. The picture is given: The family is separated, deconstructed by this society, society of appearance that resembles the pause taken on the photo of a united family... In appearance. We can even go further by looking at the helmets of this family, light for the little boy turned to his mother, dark for the little girl turned to his father. The therapy of this family and the spectator can begin, a great therapy, whose analysis of all the details will be necessary to understand the depth.
Ruben Östlund is a genius, we suspected a little with the square and his criticism of art in general, Snow therapy confirms it completely and gives me a crazy desire to go and see Sans filtre, his last film. Then comes this famous avalanche, perfect metaphor of what will come into the life of this family like the others. Tribunal of male cowardice, latent disorder of the family focused on appearances, untouchable femininity in sweden, served by a precise staging at the top of voyeurism (the famous scenes in front of the door of the room is a fabulous abyss).
It will be necessary to be very attentive to grasp all the flavor, crowned by "the" final scene, incredibly significant on the tracks of a real acceptance of our losses of values and on the necessary reconstruction of a society lost until then in these social codes. It's hard to say more without spoiling the surprise, but if you're looking for a subtle film that skilfully uses all the vocabulary of cinema to deal with a real background subject, you're going to enjoy it. On the other hand, if you are looking for a nice and squeaky little comedy, there is a good chance that the film will leave you with ice.
Le petit soldat (1963)
Forced to serve the america interests
The little soldier of Jean Luc Godard is like many of these films, a reflection out loud of our own condition and that is what makes it in my opinion, all the charm of his cinema. Each of these films constantly reinvents in its realization, on subjects and symbols wisely used to develop its purpose and reflection. Personally I had a lot of trouble with his cinema as a young adult, often very talkative, the metaphors used by the master often tired me never convince me. But it is true that today became more adult I walked with a certain curiosity his timeless works, I re-discover Godard under a new eye, And it is with great pleasure that I enjoy deciphering the meaningful reflections of a man far ahead of his time. So it was high time to dive into all these iconic films I had still not seen, including the little soldier.
Often seen as his first political film, I would only say that he is the first to approach politics in the foreground, because for me all of Godard's work is political and social, one goes without the other in the master's little study. We follow the adventures of Bruno, an infiltrated spy in the service of France who gradually understands that these ideas end up systematically betrayed by the manipulations and pressure of these superiors. In front of this reality, man feels his ideal this dirty and his free will escape him. Bruno decides to play the game while an opportunity arises to take his life in hand, opportunity represented by a woman, with whom he hopes with all these forces to flee an environment that does not correspond in any way to his primary motivation.
The little soldier wanted to serve his country for a noble cause and ends up being sacrificed in the gears of an opaque machine whose purpose is no longer noble. Manipulation and sense of our actions are constantly questioned by Bruno who will end up through his story by revealing the following problematic: Hell is paved with good intention. Is it even possible to get out of this hell? A flagship film that says a lot about our relationship to values but also about the terrible observation, to be trapped: that of our post-war society, forced to serve the interests of our American allies at the expense of our soul.
Elvis (2022)
A meteor like the career of the king of rock
I am not really a fan of Baz Luhrmann, whose films are often too baroque for me, too brilliant too much style effect often until the hull. But his love for disproportionate tragedies is undeniable. Elvis however is for me really his film of maturity, if we find from the beginning his bloated staging, it however finds a much more controlled coherence with the character of Elvis.
And it is with some surprise that for the first time I really liked his cinema, surely by the fact that the film quickly abandons its grandiloquence to give way to Elvis, incredibly played by Austin Butler, in all its splander, his talent, his political and popular synbolism. The effects are useless as the actor succeeded the impossible, being Elvis.
Beyond the tragedy that represents its American success story, which is perhaps the first to have taken such a large scale, that we understand as the film unfolds, how it is a piece of history of the evolution of mentalities as well as the greatest torments that a human being can feel as much as suffer in the face of such a dazzling career.
Tom Hanks is also a great agent. Rare I would have hated it so much, rarely I would have seen the manipulation of a chicken with a golden egg so ready. It is terrible and tragic in essence and it is perhaps the reason why Baz Luhrmann does not need to do more. All this is enough for him. That's why I loved this movie and rediscovered Elvis. It's by far, I think, the best Baz Luhrmann and an incredible transcription of this dazzling success for the spectator who makes you dizzy.