I missed this gem in the VERY limited release it had in only a few theaters so I ordered and waited a long time to get this one just today... I ordered it in early Sept, of 2023.




it's pure esthetic story telling of the indigenous peoples in various parts of Mexico... there is NO dialog, but the movie doesn't need language to portray the peoples and there lives.

it's a beautifully shot and rendered cinematic piece.

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Kristin Stewart has taken on some very different roles, apparently, from her early Twilight films. Personal Shopper and Clouds of Sils Maria are extraordinary films with extraordinary performances by Stewart. (Both films are directed by Olivier Assays.) She is one of the finest actors working today.

I've tried watching Beau Is Afraid three times and just can't get through it.

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Ari Aster is a vastly over-rated filmmaker. Hereditary is a mess, Midsommer was decent but ultimately exists for shock value, and Beau Is Afraid is awful.

The Loves Lies Bleeding (2024) movie is a love story and a thriller and is totally bonkers, but is not dull. Somehow actress Kristen holds the movie together. I just finished it. Early on you know something is wrong with this movie when Lou Sr (Ed Harris) decides to get the attention of an employee of his by firing a bullet past her head from 50 yds away. You get women's bodybuilding, fine actor Ed Harris looking ridiculous in his makeup, Hulk-like scenes, shiny handguns, FBI, drugs, sex, fights, and love triangles. The central question is "are muscular women hot or not?". What else could you want?

Go Kristen Stewart

It's interesting when I don't know whether she's channeling a Japanese middle school girl, or a porn star.

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Meet the Huggetts, along with Dennis Price as the holiday camp psychopath. Can post-war Britain have been remotely like this?

Challengers - Finally, a Guadagnino film I like! Maybe because it centres around tennis, albeit that's truly a cover for a toxic love triangle. Zendaya is really good as the manipulative wife/coach who is living the career she never had through her husband. She's no master manipulator though, as she's easily distracted by her attraction to the down on his luck loser Patrick Zweig, in whom I think she also sees potential. There are a lot of layers to the character dynamics, plenty to talk about.

I have minor quibbles towards the end of the move, when Guadagnino can no longer keep a clamp on his inner 'artist'. Slo-mo is overused to capture every drop of the players' dripping sweat and hammer home the underlying message of the characters' actions. It's not art Luca, it's cheesy and incredibly blatant storytelling.

She's channeling human garbage.