Please Baby Please

I can't imagine I'll be more aggravated by another performance this year than I was by Andrea Riseborough's in this movie.

I'll never complain about a movie trying to give us something we haven't seen before, so credit where credit is due. But this film is a misfire from top to bottom. Set in a hyper-artificial world that reads like a love child between John Waters and David Lynch, the film is full of anger, frustration, and sadness about being forced into social norms that don't fit. I like the concept on paper, but this movie is intolerable. Nobody felt like a real character, nothing happening felt like it had any urgency, everything felt exaggerated and arbitrary. Riseborough is the worst offender -- why deliver a line like a normal human being when you can instead grimace and mug and throw yourself on the floor for no conceivable reason. But nobody comes out of this movie unscathed. The only scenes that featured characters having actual conversations of any substance sounded like gender identity podcasts.

It was like this movie was trying from the outset to be a cult classic, not understanding that cult classics can't be manufactured. I very much disliked it.

Grade: D.

I absolutely adore this movie. It is so thoroughly, delightfully queer in every sense of the word. It so perfectly blends the cinematic influences it's drawing from (obviously Anger and Fassbinder, but also cult camp classics like "Absolutely Beginners" and "Crimes of Passion") while also being utterly singular. Andre Riseborough has been getting a lot of the attention for this movie, and she's great in it, but Harry Melling is absolutely killing it in this film. He so inhabits Arthur's internal struggles with his masculinity and sexuality in a way that feels startlingly authentic. The final dance sequence is my favorite moment from a movie this year, and maybe in the past few years. Absolute queer joy personified.

This movie is "not for everyone," but what percentage of cinema really is "for" anyone?

Well, I don't know... I really don't know. Some filmscare are like that, they try to force too much for being different and in some points, it is artificial and meaningless. First of all I have to start with what I like ; colours in the movie! It is so cool dark but at the same time so brilliant. There are too many conversations and no connection between them. Some of them ok but again forced for me. What kind of LGBT movie is this? I don't know. Thanks God I didn't watch this movie in a film festival or theater because it is boring for me. I didn't finish yet last 30 min but I have some doubts about the end. Probably it will not give anything to me. Final words ; ok but do not expect too high. Average and almost semi amateur. Demi Moore was ok. Love to see stars like that as a supporter in movies.

This is like a gender studies class wrote a play to perform for their college and somehow it got turned into a movie script. It feels like a series of set pieces rather than a cohesive story. No one remotely acts like a human. They seem more like aliens who took acid. Dialogue is either thinly veiled preaching or the characters trying to see who can be the quirkiest. The lead actress needs psychiatric help if she thought this was a good performance.

For some reason, this got added to Shudder even though it has absolutely nothing to do with horror.

The only mildly interesting thing was seeing what Dudley Dursley looks like all grown up.

I like watching bad movies but this was on a different level like the Cats remake.

If you love those sort of artsy theatre performances you get dragged to by a pretentious friend once in your lifetime maybe!? Andrea Risebourgh is fantastic as are the other leads (Demi is only in two scenes). It looks great and the central idea is good but it's just way too weird for me too often. It's intersected with loads of Andrea Risebourgh music videos! It wasn't a hate watch, it's entertaining in a way, but I just want to understand a film more than I did this one! There was way too much going on, the director was trying to do to much but there wasn't really any plot. The central idea about a bored couple getting dragged into a biker gang should have been great really.