In a pop-up cinema, tiny, lined with black curtains like an old-school porn cinema in the back of probably the only surviving DVD rental place in the western world.
That said, it's a little more personal venue than the cinemas in the city, which is a good thing. The film quality, via laser projector, terrific, sound as well.
Bringing me to the movie. Billed as a black comedy or satire ONLY if you're comfortably entrenched in the middle class, or wealthy as they seldom have the self-awareness to realize how accurately they've been portrayed.
Otherwise, visceral, familiar characters and dialogue in engaging situations, not even a step removed from reality - the events, contrived for the script, but given the representations of class any characters would have arrived at the same conclusions. In short, an excellent film, just a little too close to home, we're living through it on a much larger scale even as I write this, but frame it as entertainment and maybe people will pay attention...
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1922, silent Swedish horror/documentary on Witches.
This was surprisingly brilliant - in it's special effects, it's treatment of the subject matter, appropriately salacious with some of the best costumed devils and demons I've seen.
Best of all you can watch it online here for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl6NvqUM5IM
Note - the end - or simply "End" - in Swedish surprisingly works well in English, an unintended pun of sorts.
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A dark little supernatural horror film. Norwegian. Well done, but not particularly enjoyable...
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Meh. I like Greenaway's style - and this had lots of it, beautiful scenery, cinematography, but perhaps should have known a little more about Eisenstein before watching.
Meh.
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