I’m back on my bullshit again – pondering why I write anything at all. While I do that, I figure I’ll keep posting old reviews from Cinema Sentries. Even if I never write a new thing specifically for this blog, I’d still like to make this a full depository of everything I’ve ever written.
This French film cuts itself in half, showing the same scenes from two wildly different perspectives. It stars the always wonderful Audrey Tautou, and according to my review, I mostly liked it.
James Gandolfini will always be known as Tony Soprano. The role was iconic, the show (The Sopranos) changed television, ushering in the age of Prestige TV. Gandolfini was perfect in it.
But James Gandolfini was an actor. Of course. He may have completely embodied the brutal, murderous gangster who also needed a therapist, but he was not Tony Soprano.
There is no better way to understand that than to watch Enough Said, a lovely romantic comedy that understands the nuances of life and relationships.
Writer/director Nicole Holofcener has made a career of making these small little films that feel lived in and real. This is a lively movie and you can read my review here.
I very much like Joseph Gordon Levitt, the actor. He’s been in some delightful movies. Don Jon was his feature-length debut as a director. He also stars as the titular Don a man who loves having sex with women, but actually kind of prefers sex with himself whilst watching pornography.
Scarlett Johansson stars as his eventual girlfriend who is addicted to the unreal lives she finds in romantic comedies. The film draws direct parallels from the unrealistic fantasies one finds in porn to the unrealistic fantasies one also finds in romantic comedies.
It is a pretty okay movie. The actors are good and it looks good, but it is too blunt with its themes and the ending feels way too easy.
You can read my full thoughts from 2013 here.
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