I don’t know if writer/director Rudy Mancuso‘s 2024 coming of age romance ever fully lives up to its potential, getting lost in the latter half in an unconvincing love triangle and deciding puppets rather than music is the core to our quirky leading man, but it’s undeniable that at its best moments Música soars.
…
Easily comparable to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, both in its subject manner and its origins and staging from a stag play, The Invite is nothing more or less than an evening two couples spend together leading to arguments, arousal, suffering, and, ultimately, something nearing understanding. Although at times uncomfortable, it’s an evening you don’t want to miss.
…
With Christopher Nolan‘s big-budget of adaptation looming, we take a quite different look at a film exploring Homer‘s classic tale. Written and directed by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, 1963’s Contempt centers on playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), whose marriage falls apart after he agrees to help rework the script for American producer Jerry Prokosch (Jack Palance) and German director Fritz Lang‘s (playing an exaggerated version of himself) production of Homer’s The Odyssey.
…
1963’s Charade was an attempt to cash-in on a Hitchcock-like thriller with more than a dash of screwball comedy thrown in similar to North by Northwest. It may not match up to one of Hitchcock’s best films, but Charade (despite some murky plot points) succeeds by throwing interpreter Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) into an uncertain world of spies and thieves after the sudden death of her husband who was in possession of something worth killing him, and her, over.
…
I’ve tried to like The Jacket, but, despite the film starring one of my favorite actresses, I’ve never been been sold on its unusual premise which I’m not sure even screenwriter Massy Tadjedin complete understands.
…
