I hope "The Free Press" and its audience evolve to something that can discuss film as film. I was going to post my take on the movie, but as I am late to the game (I see the comments ending Nov 14 - I sometimes think about a movie for a year or so before commenting) and as most of the comments are about #MeToo, I will leave it at a link …
I hope "The Free Press" and its audience evolve to something that can discuss film as film. I was going to post my take on the movie, but as I am late to the game (I see the comments ending Nov 14 - I sometimes think about a movie for a year or so before commenting) and as most of the comments are about #MeToo, I will leave it at a link to my review of "Black Swan," ( https://cinemadiscourse.com/the-black-swan-a-movie-review/ ) which perhaps does a better job of the inner unraveling of an artist, and "Phantom of the Opera," ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ua7VAeJWE ) which perhaps does a better job of a woman balancing her personal life and art. (That review contains a comment on "The Red Shoes'" depiction of a failure to achieve such balance.) It will be interesting to compare "Tar" and "The Red Shoes" in twenty years.
I hope "The Free Press" and its audience evolve to something that can discuss film as film. I was going to post my take on the movie, but as I am late to the game (I see the comments ending Nov 14 - I sometimes think about a movie for a year or so before commenting) and as most of the comments are about #MeToo, I will leave it at a link to my review of "Black Swan," ( https://cinemadiscourse.com/the-black-swan-a-movie-review/ ) which perhaps does a better job of the inner unraveling of an artist, and "Phantom of the Opera," ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ua7VAeJWE ) which perhaps does a better job of a woman balancing her personal life and art. (That review contains a comment on "The Red Shoes'" depiction of a failure to achieve such balance.) It will be interesting to compare "Tar" and "The Red Shoes" in twenty years.