I watched four more movies from 2015, only one of which I can recommend ("The Gift"): https://t.co/8GS1Sqaj2M
— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2016
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Movies Watched -- The Revenant
156 minute running time and I'd normally say that's an hour too long, but this movie gets a pass because it was special. Maybe cut down some dream sequence stuff ... anyway, Leo is a guide for trappers deep in Injun territory (he speaks Pawnee) back in 1823 ... lots of action, a survival story, and ultimately a revenge tale. Revenant means "one that returns after death or a long absence." Brutal, exhilarating, beautiful ... I really enjoyed it. Green rating, recommended.
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Movies Watched -- Girlhood
In French. 113 minute running time so at least 20 minutes too long. Pretty teenage girl in a heart-of-Africa way (an old Larry David joke), lovely almond-shaped eyes, lives in a housing project outside of Paris, has an abusive older brother who I guess is the adult in the house. She flunks out of school, doesn't want to go to trade school, meets a band of other black girls, joins their "gang." This is depressing so I fast forwarded from 20 minutes in ... not sure what happens in the end, but it's nothing good. It's not that I demand a movie be "happy," but I don't want to wallow in misery voluntarily. Red rating, avoid.
(Ingkoo Kang wrote that the movie is "largely a grim and stilted study of oppression.")
From the Ivory Coast
Movies Watched -- The Duke of Burgundy
106 minute running time so at least 10 minutes too long. Birgitte Nyborg, formerly Prime Minister of Denmark, has become an expert in butterflies. She has a housemaid whom she likes to push around. Actually they are lovers, into some seriously kinky stuff (including being locked in a box). This a W.D. By movie by a foot fetishist who has a thing for lesbians and lace. The Duke of Burgundy is a butterfly, not a character in the movie. Fast forwarded from 20 minutes in, obviously. Richard Brody hated it, and so did I. Red rating, avoid.
Lock me in The Box, please