Carmen
The movie just lacked any pacing, it was glacially slow, in the last mission impossible Tom took two and a half hours to get a key and find the door the key unlocked, we had action, this movie lacked even a rudimentary story of any not and we had little action, it was torture!
In a nutshell immigrant gets caught crossing American border and army marine with PTSD stupidly shoots colleague and involves himself with the female immigrant. The rest of the movie they were on the run.
The music grated throughout as it gave the impression we were watching something meaningful and profound but it was all squalid and vapid. The mother reflections were absurd.
This was overall an art house indulgence that perhaps needn't have been made as it amounted to style over substance without a voice or a heart. It was so performative, Carmen traces one of her mother's friends and is let into the dancers dressing room, "is that you Carmen?", I would reply yet it is, instead we get a drawn out 5 minutes of insignificant platitudes' it was terrible! Aidan calls his sister and she answers the phone and say who is this, I would have answered it's me, instead we get a drawn out absurd pause.
What really got me was the assertion Carmen was a strong independent woman, they kept repeating this ad nauseum, but I never her saw her do anything apart from rely on others.
At best this is a two outta 10, I enjoyed the dancing but the rest was rubbish!
The jury is still out on Paul Mescal's acting, he certainly does very little, but I have yet to see him do anything that stretches these stiff roles, it's all a bit blank.
