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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022
A really well made movie that I just didn’t like. It’s a brutal slog of tragedy and death and I guess it’s for kids? A bummer of a time but PG? The songs are all terrible. I don’t know. I hate to be a hater but I hate.
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Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's 1981
A buffoonish craven pig-man (Michel Blanc) invites himself into the home of his buddy (Bernard Giraudeau) and his buddy’s girlfriend ( Thérèse Liotard). When he’s not starting fires on the stove, trying to casually start orgies, or thinking up cockamamie schemes then he’s trying (unsuccessfully) to sleep with anything that moves. And yes it’s another French movie where a guy struggles with his desire to commit adultery. Does he do it? I won’t spoil it but I’ll remind you that this is a French comedy. This is funny enough, never hits the highs of the Blanc/Giraudeau’s earlier team up Marche a L’ombre but is good fun.
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Beau Pere 1981
Even for Blier, this one is totally insane. Not necessarily insane in the structural sense as most of his films from this period, it has a surprisingly fairly conventional narrative structure, but hoooodoggy the plot. 21st century Americans would be breaking their TV sets, after a good ogle at nude 16 yr old star Ariel Besse, of course. Because if anything defines American Exceptionalism more than glaring hypocrisy it’s white hot horniness with a supersized side of shame.
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The Brink's Job 1978
I’ve come to the conclusion that really all I care about in movies is tone. Whenever people point out plot holes or confused story arcs I typically don’t have any clue what they’re talking about nor why any of that should matter. Narrative be goddamned, all I really want is a movie with an engaging tone, atmosphere, energy, whatever you want to call it. The Brink’s Job is all tone, atmosphere, energy. A freewheeling heist movie with an incredible cast,…
