King Cnut

PÖFF post

This film is absolutely brilliant.  I saw it as part of PÖFF, but if you have the chance to see it -  Go for it. It easily the best documentary I have ever seen. I like the Fashion Cinema programme at PÖFF anyways and I like this sort of classic fashion cinema documentaries too, but this was something totally different and man was it wonderful. I liked the topic of copyright  laws and parodying itself, but the fact that it's sort of a comedy documentary makes it so unique and wonderful. Those are not the two things you'd think to combine easily.

I think the storytelling was amazing. To the point where I started to almost wonder if they manipulated the truth to get a more captivating narrative. It was fantastic, fun, clever and everything wrapped up really nicely. It is a classic David and Goliath story and man was it satisfying. One man goes against a giant corporation in his own unique, witty and clever way and doesn't completely fail. Justice prevails! More or less.

Also, to look at this critically - it's a hell of a good advertising for his clothing brand.

But really, it was awesome and it was great to have the main character (you can't really call him an actor when it's a documentary) and the director there as well.

Mother!

Well, let me tell you - if you like close-ups of Jennifer Lawrence you will love this film. I like Jennifer Lawrence rather a lot, but I must admit the constant close-ups gave me a bit of headache.

Otherwise I loved the aesthetics of this movie. I generally don't like it when all people talk about after seeing a movie are the clothes the people wore or the rooms and landscapes it was all filmed in, but I loved the fact that this film had a very constant colour theme that was really noticable and cool. I liked that the main character had a very distinct style of clothing, despite the fact that it didn't fall under any pre-established style category. I mean that she wasn't a goth or something similar. Her clothes were very casual, but she still had a style.

I also liked the effects, they were very - effective and different from any I had seen. Visually the film was very very pleasing. 

Did I actually like the film as a whole now? I think I did. Maybe. The story wasn't too pleasant and if it hadn't been told so beautifully and visually I wouldn't have liked it. It had some metaphors and sub-text and hidden meanings into it, but they were very unclear and difficult to decode. You might think that's the point, but with some movies its very easy to think of things that the author might have meant. Here, you wonder of they tried too hard.

i liked the ending, it was satisfying, but I think, once again, more visually, than story-wise

Paris can wait

This film ... was not my cup of tea. I'm not saying it was bad. Although I think if it had been exceptionally good I would have enjoyed it despite the drama/romance genre. I can, after all, enjoy such films as well.

This, however, it was pretty average. Not terrible, but not good enough to make me feel it was worth my time. Perhaps I was not its target audience, but I feel that in a good film we can relate to all kinds of characters.

I found nothing relatable in this. Nothing. I didn't really like any of the characters. I couldn't relate to any. The main lead pissed me off, because I would have done everything completely differently that her and as a result her actions irritated me. I don't watch a lot of romantic drama and yet nothing about this felt particularly fresh.  Once again, I can't say it was bad - there were some cool visuals, some neat ideas, a lot of nice food. I just didn't like it.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Honestly, I didn't expect to love it as much as I loved the first part and went into it thinking:"Ah, I bet this won't be as good as the first one." But really - I think it was pretty much just as good. It was - similar. I even liked the callbacks to the originals, the scene that was the same, but the outcome was different. It was clever.  Sure, they used some famous people like Elton John purely because they can do that now with the first part having been successful, but I don't really mind.

I was skeptical about them bringing Harry (Colin Firth) back and how they would do it, but I think plot-wise it was just plausible enough and didn't feel like a huge cop-out. And really, the film doesn't hold very well without him. He is just an amazing actor. Julianne Moore was really great too.

Fun, enjoyable watching, the plot was pretty cool too, it had some tropes, some things you could expect, but it was a fairly clever jab at the US president at least.

The Square

I went into this with high expectations. I heard great things about this film from a person who sees a lot of cinema and reviews films for a living so when she was in love with it I decided to check it out.

It's one of those rare films that is both artsy, different, unique and..fascinating, thrilling and actually relateable.  It has a plot, that moves, for a most part, with a pleasant speed. It grabs your attention, there is something everyone can relate to or at least - recognize and say:"Yes, I know other people like that."

It's interesting, multi-layered and has a lot going on in it. The characters are just likeable enough that you can feel a bit sorry for them here and there. I wouldn't call it a comedy. It is classified as one, but it certainly isn't the sort of humour that makes you laugh. It's dark, satirical and certainly very clever and intelligent, but I didn't feel in any way uplifted or humoured leaving the cinema. It is obviously a great movie. Anyone can tell you that, it was awarded highly at Cannes after all, but better than that (for me personally), it was one that I actually liked.

Kedi

I got into the mood for a bit of an indie...ish - film (not a Hollywood blockbuster) for this, picked a day when I felt I was in the right mood for it. I read a review - it was great and the film was shown not only in the art-film cinemas here, but in the more mainstream ones too, so surely, it must be great. It's about cats, after all. I love cats. What could go wrong?

Well, apparently - a lot of things. It was - boring. Plain and simple. At the start I was excited, by the end I was squirming in my seat wondering when would it end. One could say that Hollywood movies with their flashy fast-paced images has spoiled me. But no - I'm not sure that's the issue here. The film had no narrative. No one storyline to tie together the small bits, the stories of all the cats. If there was one it was so loose, it didn't do it's job. It felt like a small TV-series with each bit of the film being an episode about a certain cat(s) and a human connected to the cat(s). It got old, repetitive and there were a lot of issues I would have liked a closer look at, a more in-depth discussion of, but that were just briefly mentioned. All and all, not my favorite kind of film.

Spider-man: homecoming

Sometimes it's just nice to go and see a nice entertaining movie. It's nice when you go and expect something good, mildly amusing and nice and you get just that. Not a masterpiece, but something that you can just enjoy and forgive some small flaws to, because it's entertaining. And that is what that movie is.

It was almost a little shocking that this wasn't an origin story. I was mildly disoriented by the fact for a moment, but really it was great and refreshing. I liked the story. Liked that everything was already established, because really - we all know how Peter Parker becomes Spiderman by now. I felt that Peter was pretty in character too.