Tenet

The rest is fate and I don't have it

Year: 2020
Director: Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Starring: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Kenneth Branagh

What is this about: Secret agent finds out time doesn't work the way we always thought when is he is recruited to work for project called Tenet and finds out objects can move backward through time.


Content warnings: Action kind of violence
Best about it: Smart and well made. I liked the start, but suprises ended too quickly. If you're action film lover you'll like this.
How did I felt: Dissapointed! Don't get me wrong, the movie was fine as a action movie, but it could have potential to be great sci-fi mystery or something more and that's what I kind of expected and didn't get. Also as some Nolans movies tend to be, this was too long and somehow main characters were not easy to identify with. I was big fan of Nolan's Inception (2010) and Memento (2000) so that propably affected my expectations.
Goodness: 3,5/5
Weirdness: 2/5

2021

Here's 12 good movies I've seen in 2021 that I didn't make a post about. Short introduction it is then, so that these can get more public awareness and also for me to remember these better.

 ID: A (2011)

Woman wakes up in a river and remembers nothing. She tries to solve what happened before. Super good and underrated mystery drama thriller. 4,5/5

The Invisible Man (2020)

Cesilia escapes her manipulative and abussive husband and feels that she is hunted by a man no-one sees. Realy nice mystery drama with horror and scifi elements. 5/5

 

MidSommar (2019)

Smart cult themed horror movie directed by Ari Aster. Ominous atmosphere from beginning 'till the end. 4/5

 

Fantastic Planet (1973)

Directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor. This felt oddly very timely even it's made almost 50 years ago. This animated science fiction film is dystopian where humans are kept as animals (called Oms) by humanoids in technologically and spiritually advanced society. Some Oms are kept  as pets while others live in the nature and are periodically slaughtered to control their population. 4/5

 

Barking dogs never bite (2000)

This was special, because I went to the movies after a really long pandemia break. Movie itself was great too. South Korean  dark comedy directed by Bong Joon-ho was sort of slow and with only limited plottwists but enough to keep me interested. 4/5

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring/Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003)

Minimalistic strong drama directed by Kim Ki-duk. Unique and slightely depressing but beautiful. 4/5

Naked Lunch (1991)

David Cronenbergs Naked Lunch is based on novel by William S. Burroughs. Really bizarre mix of crime, mystery and drama made with surrealistic touch. 4,5/5

Taipei Suicide Story

Short movie about hotel where desperate people come to commit suicide. Very warm and thoughtful film. 5/5

Hotel Artemis (2018)

Sort of an easy good mood crime movie, but with dystopian and action vibes. Slightly psychological but still easy to watch. 4/5

Hypnotic (2021)

Psychological trauma themed Netflix thriller, directed by Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote, written by Richard D'Ovidio and starring Kate Siegel, Jason O'Mara, and Dulé Hill. Very true to its genre and nothing wrong with it. 3,5/5

 

The Invisible Guest/ Contratiempo (2016)

Nice mystery drama thriller by Oriol Paulo. Adrian is accused of a murder that happened in the closed room and he has only few hours to find our what happened and how to defend.

 

Don't look up (2021)

One of the most talked movies of the year. Comet is about to destroy planet Earth and movie directed by Adam McKay and strred by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence is filled with parables of how covid and/or climat change are considered amoung conspiracy theorists, media and politics. Nice scifi drama comedy, but partly painful to watch as it's so accurate. 4,5/5

Suspiria

 Love and manipulation. They share houses very often.

Year: 2018
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: David Kajganich
Starring: Dakota Johnson,  Tilda Swinton,  Mia Goth, Angela Winkler,  Chloë Grace Moretz, Jessica Harper
What is this about: Young woman joins dance academy in Berlin. Nice coincidence that one room happens to be free in the dormitory after one dancer left. A bit later it starts to seem that academy is run by witches. Surrealistic and supernatural story with horror elements.

Content warnings: Violence
Best about it: Visuality. Very rough and strong but doesn't show too much blood
How did I felt: I have to say that I really don't know if I liked this or not. First it felt a bit too scary, but I liked the story, a bit later it sort of went over the top and everything was a little bit too much so credibility worsened. Somehow the big picture was good anyway and the movie has very strong own unique world.
Goodness: 4/5
Weirdness: 4/5

2046

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

Year: 2004
Director: Won Kar Wai
Writer: Won Kar Wai
Starring: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li,  Carina Lau, Maggie Cheung, Takuya Kimur, Chang Che, Wang Sum

What is this about: Twisted romantic drama with a hint of futurism. Writer Chow Mo-wan escapes his heartbreaks in to several romances and writing a story about 2046 a place/time where nothing ever changes.

Content warnings: Sex
Best about it: Several layers of story, nice visuality and soundscape
How did I felt: Entertained. Liked it a lot
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 3/5

 Trailer: Klik

Dune

 Do you often dream things that happen just as you dreamed them?

Year: 2021
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth  
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac , Jason Momoa, Stellan Skarsgård  , Zendaya, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Chen Chang

Content warnings: K-12 violence, so not so much
Best about it: Visuality, color themes, sounds. Very beautiful and nicely done. I also liked political themes
How did I felt: I have to admit that i felt occasionally I bit bored, because of the adventurous nature of the movie and many action scenes. If you happen to like adventure movies, this propably wont bother you. There was also some fantasy elements that didn't impress me. I'm a big fan of dystopias, but I like them to feel more real. Overall very much worth watching even tho it wasn't as mindblowing.
Goodness: 4/5
Weirdness: 2/5

Photos 1 & 4: www.dunemovie.com

The Lighthouse

Say, why is it bad luck to kill a gull?

-In them's the souls of sailors what met their maker

Year: 2019
Director: Robert Eggers
Writer: Robert Eggers, Max Eggers
Starring:  Robert Pattinson,  Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes
What is this about: Ephraim Winslow is sent to the lighthouse to work as Thomas Wakes helper for a month. Island's longtime keeper proves to be very demanding and even intimidating and seems to want to keep his secrets. Working in isolated island doing burdensome chores causes harm to both of them. Athmosphere is dark from the beginning 'till the end.

Content warnings: Violence.
Best about it: Thoughtful characters and pleasant visuality.
How did I felt: A bit anxious, partly heartbreaking. I did not like this movie at all, but I still think it's a good one. Not a good-mood movie.
Goodness: 4/5
Weirdness: 5/5

Lost Highway

  I like to remember things my own way

Year: 1997
Director: David Lynch
Writer: David Lynch, Barry Gifford
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito, Balthazar Getty, Gary Busey, Lucy Butler, Robert Loggia
What is this about: Jazz mucisian Fred and his wife Renee finds out someone is stalking them and weird story where time doesn't happen linearly starts. Enjoying the experience works better than trying to analyze the plot. It's a mix of love, lust, crime and mystery.

Content warnings: Sex, violence
Best about it: Visuality, atmospere and characters
How did I felt: Confused, entertained
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 4/5

Official trailer: klik