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Reviews
L'ombra di Caravaggio (2022)
Turgid and lacking narrative subtlety.
The hypocrisy of key Church figures who condemn the sensuality of the painter, all the while competing to hoard his art seems bizarre, the figure of Caravaggio becomes an attractive and sympathetic revolutionary hero in a secular era. While his animalistic rutting grosses me out he gets the best lines. The investigator who travels around interviewing witnesses is so intent on his task he becomes one-dimensional. But the film suffers from such poor narrative construction that it becomes tedious and repetitive, gradually dulling my interest. If the powerful originality of the artist's output were shown more clearly I would have found it more enjoyable.
De nærmeste (2015)
Emotionally complex drama
Transgressing the edges of taboo, this complex and absorbing drama traces the development of an obsessive and erotic romance that develops between two adult half siblings. Brilliantly sustained by the remarkable emotional range displayed in Ine Marie Wilmann's extraordinary, nuanced performance and writer-director Anne Sewitsky's wise and subtle telling.
Pieces of Her (2022)
I give up!
Despite some powerful performances, from the two Aussie actresses playing mother and daughter, the story was so attenuated, that it finally dragged me well beyond the point of caring.