BIRDMAN
Good bordering on great film,
very deep. Always liked Michael Keaton but felt he was squandered in the move
roles he did. Here, he not only makes a successful comeback but turns in one of
the better performances I've seen in recent years - Unpredictable and multi-layered. This movie was sort of a play within a play –
I wasn’t sure by the end what was real and what was hallucination. At times, the large distinguished cast playing
mostly lunatic characters threatens to steal the show (especially Edward
Norton) but they never do. Also fabulous
dialogue.
FORCE MAJEURE
This film has an intriguing
premise – Man does something very cowardly in front of his loved ones. Will
they be able to continue to see him the same way? What happens next? This
Swedish film unfortunately does not live up to its premise and ends up being
wildly uneven filled with important well put together scenes like the dinner
party where the wife finally breaks down or the ending or the eerie presence of
the housekeeping guy watching everything going on silently but for every one of
these scenes is another long dragged out scene of silence or something else
that has no meaning. Could have lost 20 minutes and been a better tighter
movie. The scene where the husband breaks down and cries is overwrought and
ruins the mood.
Also as SELMA is as much a discussion
of history as as a review of this very bad film I've written about it on my general
topics blog.... http://www.rgdinmalaysia.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-problem-with-selma.html
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