My piece for the upcoming volume Life Above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence Malick, on the relevance of Plato to Knight of Cups and Song to Song. I decided to just post it on my blog to make it easier to incorporate pictures.
strohltopia.com/2021/08/24/platonic-myths-of-eros-in-knight-of-cups-and-song-to-song/
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Song to Song 2017
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The Intruder 2004
Most of Denis’ work has an elliptical quality; she forsakes the usual connective tissue of exposition and instead shows us evocative shards of narrative. L’Intrus pushes this tendency to its far extreme. At one point, we see the film’s unsympathetic protagonist, Louis Trebor, go to sleep in Geneva, Switzerland and then we see him wake up in Busan, South Korea. Further confounding the narrative, surreal waking events are juxtaposed with dreams in a way that unsettles the distinction between the…
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Ladies in Retirement 1941
This is so good until the last act. The blackmail plot sorta fizzles for me.
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Bad Therapy 2020
More Alicia Silverstone madness. This is actually a pretty close companion piece to The Requin, with wall-to-wall shrill marriage catharsis (and Silverstone leaning all the way in) but replacing the floating hotel room and sharks with an evil therapist.
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Dark Glasses 2022
Connoisseurs of late style: assemble. If Argento’s received classics are grand operas of fear, this is a late-career piano sonata. Zero interest in the bad takes here. I totally understand not liking Argento, but fawning over his 70’s and 80’s stuff and then beating up on this is a horrible opinion, and what’s worse, a boring one.
I’ll have more to say about this once I let it marinate and rewatch it. A couple brief remarks: it’s very clear who…
