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Below, I outline the oft-Freudian fixations of the 80th Venice Film Festivals hive mind.
Weakness is vulnerability, etc.
over and over again while making cringe-inducingly derivative observations on the world around him.
New York, he says.
The city that never sleeps.
I think Linklaters movie is the only one that gives the love interest an actual name.
Who did it best?
Movie-wise, Linklater, by a trillion miles.
She describes the movie as numbskulled nonsense …bludgeoningly obvious, creatively inert, deathly dull.
The mans got range!
Which Willem Dafoe did it best?
Why dont people do this all the time?
she asks her lover, played by Mark Ruffalo.
But hes only interested in her as a vessel of purity and virginity and refuses her for years.
Biopics That Are Not Biopics
Dont you dare call these biopics biopics.
But you probably can call it a biopic if you want, Sofia seems fine with that.
Out of the four, the best biopic that isnt a biopic but is sort of a biopic isPriscilla.
Coincidentally, there sure were a lot of movies about hypermasculine dudes at Venice this year.
Cars are boring, she said.
Im sick to death of looking at cars in a movie.
Just kidding, she actually said this: Im the first female person to receive this award.
There are women writers and directors who are working as well as men.
Its not quite right if we dont give them a chance to be seen.
