Comedian from Melbourne who likes films a lot.
Comedian from Melbourne who likes films a lot.
my first and likely only miff film this year so i suppose i should review it. classic miff experience of a noble messy failure emboldened by a big screen with loud speakers. after a mesmerising opening 15 minutes the film becomes unwaveringly mired in its own devotion to images and the constant battery of (admittedly imaginative and striking, occasionally poetically affecting) symbolism never manages to breathe for long enough to allow us under its equal parts filthy and glittering surface. long live ambition.
I'm torn on a rating. It does not deserve five stars. It probably deserves one star at best. But giving this the one star it deserves will not fully describe how much of a masterpiece this film is. It's high trash art. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just really bad. And yet it is perfect. I cannot give it one star. But I cannot give it five stars. And giving it anything in between just dilutes its essence. I'm…