Letterboxd — Your life in film

Gerwig's adaptation brings out the best in Little Women. She avoids route recitation in favor of thoughtful and near-spiritual engagement with the novel. Her narrative structure splits the story into two lines of equal weight. The teenage sisters (filmed in brighter, amber yellow light), alternate back and forth, scene by scene with their young adult selves (filmed in colder, cobalt blue tones). The change is subtle — I was the only one in my family who noticed the color palette…

Lost some magic on second view. Still magical.

Monos presents itself as taking place nowhere in particular, notime in particular, a contextless fable set to describe universal themes. You never hear the name of the country, or the name of the broader paramilitary group of which Monos is a cell. But this doesn't really work. There isn't a universal theme and the context turns out to be crucially important. Landes said in this interview that Monos comments on the Colombian civil…

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2019

You have never seem impressionism like this in film. Tom Cullen's directorial debut follows the slowly disintegrating relationship of Leon (Jay Duplass) and Jenna (Tatiana Maslany). Cullen gives the actors near-total freedom in improvisational acting and it overwhelmingly works. Only a few lines in the film fail. This creates a central realism to Pink Wall that is itself striking.

But more striking, and what makes the film so impressionistic, is the wildly experimental cinematography which…