“You don’t get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.”
Rarely have I ever related to a protagonist as much as I did to Marty... I need some time to THINK
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TIFF 2020 - Film #3
The Father is harrowing and hard to watch, but beyond brilliant. Zeller’s dynamic direction and his stupendous screenplay place you right in the mind of someone suffering from dementia, while Hopkins’s (career-best?) performance perfectly personifies that pain. Simply stunning.
Also, I know it’s only September, but... I think we can consider that Best Actor race wrapped up, lol.
Why have I seen this twice
I am no longer hot trash as I have FINALLY fixed this glaring, cinematic blindspot!
Beautiful, immaculate filmmaking underscored by a poignantly melancholic romance for the ages. It took a bit for me to fully become invested in the story and the central relationship, but once we started delving deeper into Rick and Ilsa’s history, I was entirely sold on the emotions onscreen (particularly thanks to Bogart’s and Bergman’s outstanding chemistry).
Not a new favorite persay, but certainly deserving of the endless acclaim it’s received over the years.
Wrote about two of my favorite films of the year, Women Talking and She Said - which also happen to be two of the most important films of the year as well, in my opinion - and why it’s essential for the industry that they be uplifted this awards season and not diminished by superficial critiques.
Women Talking is so many things, all at the same time, and all of them absolutely stunning. An empathetic epic on an intimate scale. A radical act of female reinvention. And an emotionally enlightening examination of our eternal struggle to (safely) secure our space in the world. Sarah Polley’s delicate direction and sensitive screenplay pair like poetry, while the entire ensemble is so uniformly exceptional that I struggle to single out a favorite performance at the moment - though Claire…
My notes:
-Gene Hackman is good at running!
-Gene Hackman is bad at driving!
-That’s... it?
The end.
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My favorite genre is romantic comedy so OF COURSE this swept me off my feet, but I was NOT prepared to literally press my hand over my heart and gasp as Ellie bolted from the altar at the end. The ION!!!
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Dustin Hoffman has made me consider that maybe dads DO deserve rights!
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