GOING NOIR: Il testimone invisibile; Wind River; Blade Runner 2049; The Nile Hilton Incident – HISTORY: Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; The Post
Il Testimone invisibile
Mi ha ricordato Delitto Perfetto e Corda Tesa di hitchcockiana memoria, un set teatrale – tutto in una stanza – farcito di flash-back. Lezione di tecnica narrativa, punti di vista diversi, realtà interscambiabili e narratori inaffidabili. Tensione molto ben costruita, un noir italiano di prima qualità nel modesto contesto del thriller italiano. Da vedere.
Wind River
Western forensic thriller. There’s some Cormac McCarthy in here, and a tiny bit of Patricia Cornwell. Evil in the badlands of Wyoming: frozen wilderness, gun obsession, quest and chase, revenge, white hunter executioner – native-American friendship, discrimination, tough guys with heavy burdens. Quintessentially American
However, for a film whose closing title card explicitly marks it as a project concerned with the rape and colonial injustice suffered by Native Americans, it spends a lot of time with intervening white people. It’s more effective when it doesn’t try so hard and addresses existential themes, rather than political ones, such as the burden of grief and the tough, isolating reality of Wyoming’s frozen expanse. (Guardian)
Blade Runner 2049 review – a gigantic spectacle of pure hallucinatory craziness
Not comparable to the original, but go for it. The first replicant Marlowian detective in near future pure dystopia
The Nile Hilton Incident
Very hard-boiled, perfect location for a story of inner corruption, with a post-Marlowe Egyptian cop. The movie tells us a lot about the context of Giulio Regeni’s ‘state’ murder, down these mean streets.
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HISTORY
Victoria & Abdul review – Judi Dench’s class act can’t compensate for lazy Raj-era nonsense
Imperialism the way it was dreamed: obedient servant, philanthropic queen, the idyll that never was
Viceroy’s House review – soapy account of India’s birth agonies
Ahead of the 2018 Academy Awards, Steve Rose makes a rousing case for the thrilling political drama in which Gary Oldman gives us the full Churchill