I have always maintained that Leos Carax is such an ingenious filmmaker, he could make even the most abstract and unconventional ideas seem engaging and captivating. This is exactly what he did in It’s Not Me (French: C’est pas moi), his ambitious and utterly bewildering attempt at self-reflection, and his most recent offering. The film,…
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Goin’ South (1978)
The idea of marrying someone for a particular reason that has nothing to do with love, only to fall in love after the fact, is one that has found its way into cinema at different points, becoming a more common trope that has been replicated a number of times. When Jack Nicholson, in his sophomore…
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Nothing inspires creativity and audacity more than rejection and failure – and few artists knew this more than Shane Black, whose career as a relatively successful screenwriter was brought to a grinding halt when one of his films did not perform as expected, leading to him becoming one of the countless casualties of Hollywood’s notoriously…
Law of Desire (1987)
The further one leaps into the careers of artists they admire, the more likely they are to find works that are not only great representations of their creativity, but also serve as clear building blocks that assist in creating their distinctive style. In the case of Pedro Almodóvar, he started as an agent provocateur at…
The Fly (1958)
There comes a moment in every film lover’s life when they put away the prestige work and stop pretending that the only true cinematic giants were those consolidated into the mainstream through high-quality filmmaking, and instead start to realise that the industry is as much built on these works of artistic integrity as it is…
The Postmodern Pelican 