Revamp Studios

11/07/2018

There is a melancholy that is permeating from the screen while watching Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits. It’s a subtle emotional barrage coming from the uneasiness of the effects of age …

05/06/2018

A contribution to Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism 7 (May 2017). See the complete journal at warwick.ac.uk/go/moviejournal/. See this video's accompanying…

03/06/2018

Short Thoughts: The Breadwinner (2017)
Dir: Nora Twomey

Carries so much weight on the passing of stories about one's history from generation to generation and also a perspective on male privilege in the lens of religious extremism. Most people have dreams of wealth and comfort, some just want a complete family.

21/05/2018

Short Thoughts: Cargo (2017)
Dir: Yolanda Ramke & Ben Howling

Who knew zombie outbreak and Australian outback could mix well? Cargo uplifts itself from its generic dialogue with the performance of Martin Freeman as a father trying to keep his daughter from both the undead and himself. Cargo could have shed its almost corny poetry too as the whole concept, story, and heart already make up for everything.

20/05/2018

Short Thoughts: The Miracle Worker (1962)
Dir: Arthur Penn

The education and awakening of deaf-blind educator Helen Keller makes for raw drama. The tedious and detailed steps Anne Sullivan had used to teach Keller are necessary in order for us to understand what it may have felt in their case: as someone who has not yet grasped language and concepts, and as someone who has teach it. Powerful performance from Anne Bancroft as Sullivan and most especially, Patty Duke as Keller.

15/05/2018

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14/05/2018

Short Thoughts: The One I Love (2014)
Dir: Charlie McDowell

The One I Love is a lesson on trust and knowing or thinking if you really know your loved one well. Real Ethan lacks the trust for his wife, while Real Sophie relies too much on it enough to think than her husband will not know what happens when they are apart.

Probably my issue with the film is that when it reaches the point when both couple finally have their confrontation, the storytelling turns to that of exposition through dialogue. The character may seem like he's doing a good job being subtle through his metaphors, but it just feels he's still explaining too much.

The ending does make you think if Ethan really has his wife back, but it's something that you expect early on when the exposition in the middle of the film had started.

Overall, The One I Love is a looking through a microscope lensing of a relationship that is trying to be fixed but the characters' attitudes come as obstacles.

01/05/2018

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25/04/2018

The Dreamers

25/04/2018

The more one talks, the less the words mean.

24/04/2018

18/04/2018

Les Cousins by Claude Chabrol