skipp-5
Joined Feb 2006
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It's a tricky review. Let's start with the story, which actually was pretty good - I'm not going to add spoilers here, aside to say, it's a great tale, with an outcome that's not what I was expecting.
The acting was first class with a cast of accomplished stars who without doubt delivered superbly.
Cinematography too was very good. There were many scenes that were beautifully composed and lit.
But... and here is where it starts to fail, why use academy ratio? As mentioned above, some scenes were exceptionally composed, but would have been so much better if we saw the missing "sides" I felt that I was falling victim to the "instagram" generation, where I was hostage to a statement image ratio which spoilt the otherwise excellent cinematography. All through the movie, I constantly wanted to see the sides that I was missing. This was the first major negative issue of this film. IMHO, this type of framing should be kept to college projects, not mainstream movies.
The other issue spoiling this movie, is the storytelling. I said at the start that the story was pretty good - but it was blurred by a director who struggled to interweave the viewer into the story. I felt like the director was simply trying too hard to make "art" and forgetting that we, the watchers, needed to be absorbed like osmosis into this movie. The director, Emerald Fennell would do well to remind herself that movies are generally for the benefit of the watcher, not for the director.
Overall however, it was watchable, but could have been so much better...
The acting was first class with a cast of accomplished stars who without doubt delivered superbly.
Cinematography too was very good. There were many scenes that were beautifully composed and lit.
But... and here is where it starts to fail, why use academy ratio? As mentioned above, some scenes were exceptionally composed, but would have been so much better if we saw the missing "sides" I felt that I was falling victim to the "instagram" generation, where I was hostage to a statement image ratio which spoilt the otherwise excellent cinematography. All through the movie, I constantly wanted to see the sides that I was missing. This was the first major negative issue of this film. IMHO, this type of framing should be kept to college projects, not mainstream movies.
The other issue spoiling this movie, is the storytelling. I said at the start that the story was pretty good - but it was blurred by a director who struggled to interweave the viewer into the story. I felt like the director was simply trying too hard to make "art" and forgetting that we, the watchers, needed to be absorbed like osmosis into this movie. The director, Emerald Fennell would do well to remind herself that movies are generally for the benefit of the watcher, not for the director.
Overall however, it was watchable, but could have been so much better...
