peter0969
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Watched at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
Indian cinema is interesting because I'm not really a fan of the traditional Bollywood genre. But anytime when Indie Indian art house movies come to light, I'm very intrigued to check them out.
Neeraj Ghaywan captures a heartbreaking and warming tale about friendship, the struggles of the caste system and the ongoing conflicts between the culture and barriers the characters are established in. Ghaywan's previous movie Masaan was pretty good and with this new movie, he continues to capture the atmosphere, and the realistic nature of the societal environment of India and it's political working class setting perfectly. Ghaywan portray of the two main characters was interesting as the characters are well-written and engaging to observe. As if you are wanting to see what their struggles, goals and compassion they are wanting to succeed towards. To top it off, the performances are pretty good as the chemistry and charm between the two leads were emotional and engaging.
Alongside with the good camerawork, production, colors and the sound designs, the narrative offers some interesting concepts and moments throughout. While at times, some of the writing does feel a bit cliched and certain emotional aspects does lean a little too much towards some of the cheesy aspects about Indian cinema. The majority of its dialogue and emotional weight remains successful.
I do enjoy some of the social class themes and a good tale about friendship as it's always interesting to observe, when it's done right of course. Overall, it's a good story and emotional to observe.
Indian cinema is interesting because I'm not really a fan of the traditional Bollywood genre. But anytime when Indie Indian art house movies come to light, I'm very intrigued to check them out.
Neeraj Ghaywan captures a heartbreaking and warming tale about friendship, the struggles of the caste system and the ongoing conflicts between the culture and barriers the characters are established in. Ghaywan's previous movie Masaan was pretty good and with this new movie, he continues to capture the atmosphere, and the realistic nature of the societal environment of India and it's political working class setting perfectly. Ghaywan portray of the two main characters was interesting as the characters are well-written and engaging to observe. As if you are wanting to see what their struggles, goals and compassion they are wanting to succeed towards. To top it off, the performances are pretty good as the chemistry and charm between the two leads were emotional and engaging.
Alongside with the good camerawork, production, colors and the sound designs, the narrative offers some interesting concepts and moments throughout. While at times, some of the writing does feel a bit cliched and certain emotional aspects does lean a little too much towards some of the cheesy aspects about Indian cinema. The majority of its dialogue and emotional weight remains successful.
I do enjoy some of the social class themes and a good tale about friendship as it's always interesting to observe, when it's done right of course. Overall, it's a good story and emotional to observe.
Watched at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
June Squibb provides a wonderful, sweet and touching performance about a elderly woman embracing new connections and friendship, in a otherwise, cliched and predictable story and structure.
Throughout, being Scarlett Johansson's debut directing, Johansson's direction feels average as her direction on the atmosphere, writing and style feels unspecial, but maintain it's normality without any issues. With the good production and solid camera work, Johansson does understand how to pull the strings on emotions as there are some solid emotional conversations, chemistry and charm between the characters and performances. Which does offer some sweet moments from June.
As mentioned, June's performance was wonderful as she offers her character to bring out into the light and shine. While the other performances are good, the characters don't feel very fleshed out at times, which made them not particularly engaging or as interesting as Johansson would have liked. Alongside with the cliched narrative, many of the style and choices were pretty cheesy and predictable. If you have seen movies like this before, then you know what will come next without a doubt.
Despite the cliche and predictable style, the general experience was still decent because of June's charmful performance and dialogue energy was able to convey the emotions successfully. She was the absolute best part of this movie. Overall, it isn't something I would see again quickly but it's decently heartwarming.
June Squibb provides a wonderful, sweet and touching performance about a elderly woman embracing new connections and friendship, in a otherwise, cliched and predictable story and structure.
Throughout, being Scarlett Johansson's debut directing, Johansson's direction feels average as her direction on the atmosphere, writing and style feels unspecial, but maintain it's normality without any issues. With the good production and solid camera work, Johansson does understand how to pull the strings on emotions as there are some solid emotional conversations, chemistry and charm between the characters and performances. Which does offer some sweet moments from June.
As mentioned, June's performance was wonderful as she offers her character to bring out into the light and shine. While the other performances are good, the characters don't feel very fleshed out at times, which made them not particularly engaging or as interesting as Johansson would have liked. Alongside with the cliched narrative, many of the style and choices were pretty cheesy and predictable. If you have seen movies like this before, then you know what will come next without a doubt.
Despite the cliche and predictable style, the general experience was still decent because of June's charmful performance and dialogue energy was able to convey the emotions successfully. She was the absolute best part of this movie. Overall, it isn't something I would see again quickly but it's decently heartwarming.
Watched at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.
While it's sappy energy and charm doesn't fully resonate with me as I would have hoped for, Richard Linklater has crafted a solid homage tale about Jean-Luc Godard's masterpiece Breathless and the French New Wave era. Capturing the essence of it's time period, production designs, style and the atmosphere perfectly of how Godard writes and approaches.
What I really appreciate about this movie is that Linklater approaches the editing, direction, atmosphere and writing just like Godard, being able to capture his style and atmosphere perfectly that feels respectful and interesting. With the production designs, sound and dialogue being great, it's homage and approach feels purposeful without feeling as if it was an Oscar Bait movie. Alongside with the good uses of black and white camera work, structure and fiction and non-fiction style approach.
The performances are pretty good as the cast were able to offer a good light to once well known actors and directors that existed. Although, there were a few performances, particularly Zoey Detuch, while good, at times some of the emotions and style felt weirdly off. Alongside with some of the pacing and the writing that definitely needs to some working.
Overall, another good movie from Richard Linklater.
While it's sappy energy and charm doesn't fully resonate with me as I would have hoped for, Richard Linklater has crafted a solid homage tale about Jean-Luc Godard's masterpiece Breathless and the French New Wave era. Capturing the essence of it's time period, production designs, style and the atmosphere perfectly of how Godard writes and approaches.
What I really appreciate about this movie is that Linklater approaches the editing, direction, atmosphere and writing just like Godard, being able to capture his style and atmosphere perfectly that feels respectful and interesting. With the production designs, sound and dialogue being great, it's homage and approach feels purposeful without feeling as if it was an Oscar Bait movie. Alongside with the good uses of black and white camera work, structure and fiction and non-fiction style approach.
The performances are pretty good as the cast were able to offer a good light to once well known actors and directors that existed. Although, there were a few performances, particularly Zoey Detuch, while good, at times some of the emotions and style felt weirdly off. Alongside with some of the pacing and the writing that definitely needs to some working.
Overall, another good movie from Richard Linklater.