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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 13, 2021 1:43:46 GMT
I don’t even think he is using that phrase in a derogatory way but again he is almost indecipherable. The best thing I can say about his style is that he seems to write as a stream of consciousness . He is again very acclaimed as critic and I have always feel bad for not getting him! es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ayala_Blanco
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 15, 2021 1:25:35 GMT
I don’t know who is this guy but apparently he is some kind of very cultured (he has a literature degree by a very important University) gossip columnist and classic soap opera re-writer! Anyway, the tweet called my attention because it mixed stories about the death of two very popular Mexican celebrities with BC winning awards for TPOTD! He recommends the film saying he has already watched it three times and thinks to watch it more times and then said he is “in love” with BC since Frankenstein which he saw both versions in London and he gets lyrical about BC’s eyes, “blue, brown and green” and “the most beautiful eyes in the history of cinema”! So one of us! Lol
It’s in Spanish.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 16, 2021 23:58:06 GMT
In Spanish but she is a good critic. She praises the way Campion manages the plot and subtlety of the film. Her only criticism is the underdevelopment of the character of Rose (according to her). She believes that George had a lot to do with her descend to alcoholism but the film isn’t very clear about it and seems to manly blame Phil.
She praises BC a lot. She says that his character goes from a very nasty man to someone you feel compassion. That’s it’s not something easy to do and a lot of that achievement is thanks to BC who “surely will be nominated to a lot of awards”
She also has a lot of interesting comments about Netflix producing auteur films.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 17, 2021 1:45:02 GMT
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Post by gingerale on Dec 18, 2021 12:48:19 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 18, 2021 13:41:10 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 20, 2021 15:40:59 GMT
This piece is really good,
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Post by mllemass on Dec 20, 2021 16:20:25 GMT
That’s a terrific article! It also covers a lot of the topics we’ve talked about in the “discussion with spoilers” thread.
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Post by gingerale on Dec 21, 2021 8:17:14 GMT
open.spotify.com/episode/2zqfmSbwrwFEgBZxL51BzV?si=zTO33vGsQ1OykrKT0FOjxgCritics Nicolas Rapold and Amy Taubin on the best movies of 2021 They talk about TPOTD around 40:00-49:00 - Taubin mentions how it's number 1 in her top ten that she wrote in October, and even after watching other movies including Drive My Car, it's still her number 1 - Taubin called the 360-degree shot in the barn scene one of "the great ones" - Thinks there's no hero in the movie, including Peter, they're all equally twisted/psychopaths - BC's character has moments of longing/regret that "take the character and the actor by surprise" (similar to what Taubin wrote in her review) - Campion, "one of the greatest directors of actors", can find a way where the actors can "live in front of the camera so that they can surprise themselves" - calls BC "a great actor" - Rapold compares it to the performance Campion captures of Nicole Kidman in Portrait of a Lady - They talk about the different audience reactions to the ending (for some they didn't understand, others they found it obvious) and agree that most people don't know what subtlety is anymore, lol
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 21, 2021 11:55:53 GMT
I just love her! There is a lot of reviews and pieces out there using some gender/queer theory language to analyze the film but they are so superficial and frivolous meanwhile she, a proper teacher, does a proper analysis of the film with just a few words! Peter is an opaque character and people are interpreting him in different ways but he isn’t the queer hero some believe he is (including me, when I read the book), he is part of the patriarchy like everyone else in the film. He is learning to be a man. That’s why Campion added that brief V.O. at the beginning of the film. And to be a man, he has to destroy the feminine. He is revenging his mother (not a heroic victim but a woman who for certain moments is almost disgusting to see in her victim hood/“feminity”) but to do that he has to expose the feminity in his enemy, www.artforum.com/film/jane-campion-makes-a-western-87203A few days ago, I read a series of tweets by a critic discussing with other critics who loved the film because he was making fun of Campion for not knowing how men masturbate! Someone else agreed with him saying the scene was ridiculous because he almost looked like a samurai doing some sacred ritual! And of course, he was doing a sacred ritual! That was the point! Lol There were some great counter arguments (men has filmed a lot of unreal masturbation scenes with female actors and this film is about female gaze; he isn’t showing a normal sexual behavior and he clearly is a fetishist; and more important, normal male masturbation wouldn’t had made a beautiful, sad and twisted scene like that!) but it has logic that he is showing some so called “feminine” sexual behavior in that scene, at least in Taubin interpretation of the film, because he is being exposed as “feminine”. That’s his secret! She has written a lot of Criterion essays. I really hope she does the same for this film when the imminent Blu-Ray is announced! She is just the best!
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