LOVING VINCENT
Movie about the final place where Vincent Van Gogh lived and how he died a year after the fact. All the animation is done as oil paintings in the style of his art and it's amazing. Bronn of the Blackwater rocks up in it too
I couldn't recommend this highly enough while it's still in cinemas.
9.5/10
I thought it quite a visually beautiful film, of course. In that sense it was a really beautiful film.
Sadly I found the storyline meandering, which was astonishing given it was a relatively short film. I'd recommend the film, but purely for it being so visually spectacular. Although people above seem to be mocking the idea of something being nonetheless worthwhile, this is a case where the film's selling point is its style, not its substance.
I also saw
The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
A more visceral movie than his preceding
The Lobster and
Dogtooth, but I'm not sure I enjoyed it as much. It just lacked the depth, its message seemed relatively shallow and obvious. Nonetheless, as with his earlier films, it did have some really amazing visuals, some great moments of horrific amusement and was pretty enjoyable (especially given how dark the plot is on paper).
The couple sitting next to me hated it though - I thought they might be in strife when the preview came on before the movie for
The Shape of Water, which they said they thought looked weird and, therefore, bad. I thought to myself "Well Jeez, you're in for a ride!" And then at the end, yeah, they agreed they should've seen
Murder on the Orient Express instead.