"Last morning" cracked me up.
The framing and blocking is amazing all throughout, but there's a brief shot early in this film where Olivia Wilde is crouching down next to the oven, pointing at the soufflé inside, that is possibly the most electric 4 seconds of cinema I have seen in five years.
Joe Dante doesn’t get nearly enough credit for how ahead of his time he was. The way he adapts the visual language of Warner Bros cartoons into the physical world in this film is something that so many big movies are still haphazardly chasing. But he does it with such virtuoso effortlessness.
And the lighting is off the freaking charts. Manic reds and greens with gothic grid shadows across everyone’s faces. It’s a direct aesthetic follow up to what he…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
If “Somehow, Palpatine returned” was an entire movie.
This movie utterly destroyed me. I am destroyed. I am in small pieces, scattered on the ground. It is a wonderful feeling.
It seems paradoxical that something can be so subtle and so powerful at the same time.
The way Adèle Haenel can hint at an expression, and convey its emotion without ever actually going there, is simply astonishing.
Noémie Merlant embodies a level of self-awareness here that will inspire me for the rest of my days. Seeing her composure…
