{"id":3130,"date":"2023-02-28T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2023-02-28T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:32:45","slug":"ken-and-robin-consume-media-aftersun-crimes-of-the-future-and-the-quiet-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/ken-and-robin-consume-media-aftersun-crimes-of-the-future-and-the-quiet-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken and Robin Consume Media: Aftersun, Crimes of the Future, and The Quiet Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon<\/a>. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we\u2019ll talk about in greater depth on a little podcast segment we like to call Tell Me More.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Aftersun (Film, UK, Charlotte Wells, 2022) On a seemingly blissful vacation in Turkey with her doting 30-year-old dad Calum (Paul Mescal), 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) subconsciously feels darker currents at work that her adult self now recalls. Two wonderfully natural performances synchronize to build a film all about layered emotional truths and the impossibility of memory. A magical experience that deliberately avoids the traps of plot and omniscience. \u2013KH<\/p>\n

The Contractor<\/a> (Film, US, Tarik Saleh, 2022) Abruptly cashiered for using performance enhancing drugs to stay in his Green Beret unit, a financially strapped vet (Chris Pine) joins his fellow family man army buddy (Ben Foster) in a mission run by a gruffly avuncular merc company proprietor (Kiefer Sutherland.) Gritty action spy thriller with touches of the Western takes pains to establish the reality of its protagonist and his world.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

Crimes of the Future<\/a> (Film, Canada\/Greece, David Cronenberg, 2022) In a future world mostly without pain, tortured performance artist Tester (Viggo Mortensen) tests the line of new vice when he\u2019s drawn into a police investigation of radical evolutionists. Cronenberg presents a basic procedural narrative in a wildly discordant fashion, down to huge variations in line readings: the result is literally bloody pulp and bloody good fun. \u2013KH<\/p>\n

Henri Dauman: Looking Up<\/a> (Film, US, Peter Kenneth Jones, 2018) Profile of Henri Dauman, who in his 60s heyday shooting for Life brought a glamorous, cinematic eye to photojournalism. Shot with affection for the subject\u2019s puckish perfectionism and empathy for the travails of a life informed by his boyhood escape from deportation to Auschwitz in wartime France.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

The Quiet Girl (Film, Ireland, Colm Bair\u00e9ad, 2022) In 1981, superfluous nine-year-old daughter C\u00e1it (Catherine Clich) goes to live with her mother\u2019s cousins in a rural idyll. A sad, beautifully shot movie about girlhood and (at a remove) motherhood, made extra gorgeous for Anglophones by having almost all the dialogue in Irish. Clinch\u2019s excellent performance wisely stays very interiorized, as the title indicates. \u2013KH<\/p>\n

Wild Girl (Film, US, Raoul Walsh, 1932) A vivacious young woman (Joan Bennett) raised among California\u2019s redwoods resists the attentions of men from the nearby town, until a handsome stranger (Charles Farrell) shows up to settle a score with the worst of them. Walsh\u2019s roughneck sympathies energize a Western fable of good-hearted outsiders up against merciless, hypocritical authorities. \u2014RDL<\/p>\n

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Django & Django (Film, Italy, Luca Rea, 2021) Documentary survey of the nihilistic spaghetti westerns of Sergio Corbucci could do with an extra talking head or two to balance the on-set anecdotes from Franco Nero and Ruggero Deodato and the enthusiastic flapdoodle of Quentin Tarantino.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

Massacre at Grand Canyon (Film, Italy, Sergio Corbucci, 1964) Returning home after avenging his father\u2019s death, an ex-sheriff (Jim Mitchum) tries to prevent a range war. Made just before Corbucci saw his friend Sergio Leone\u2019s A Fistful of Dollars and adopted a version of its hyper-accentuated spaghetti western style, this more traditional cowboy actioner contains flashes of the darkness that takes center frame in his subsequent films.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n

Triangle of Sadness<\/a> (Film, Sweden, Ruben \u00d6stlund, 2022) Feckless models (Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean) in a romantic and\/or business relationship take a free trip on a luxury cruise bound for disaster. Scores when directing its gleeful satirical cruelties at easy targets, but loses energy in its final act and cops out when it realizes where a true resolution of its tensions would take it.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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