INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
A man travels in to the countryside of Vietnam with his nephew and the body of his sister in law who died in a freak accident. Beautiful to look at and painfully slow film is a tough slog. If you like quiet meditative movies where not much happens this film is for you
GREEN BORDER
Crushing film about the refugee crisis is the world, specifically on the border between Belarus and Poland. The film follows the attempt of a group to cross over into the European Union. Shot in stark black and white the film pulls no punches with the result the film is always tense and frequently heartbreaking. We are there with the characters on the screen and by the end we are just as bruised as they are. I completely understand how this left people shattered at the New York Film Festival screenings. This is one of the great films on the migrant crisis and the year.
BANEL AND ADAMA
Banel and Adama are a couple in love. They are living away from their families so they can be together. When Adama is asked to take his birthright as chief complications arise. This stunningly beautiful set in a village in Senegal should be in the running for an Oscar for cinematography. The perfect images are going to burn themselves into your soul. Beyond that we have a wonderful love story that is going to move you. This is a small gem.
A REAL PAIN
Two cousins make the trip to the Poland and the concentration camp in honor of their grandmother and find they have to come to terms with themselves and grow up. Much better than I had expected, I am not a fan of anything Jesse Eisenberg had previously written, I actually liked REAL PAIN. At the same time I found Keiran Culkin a bit too annoying. I know that is the point, but I never warmed to him. As much as like the film I’m kind of scratching my head concerning the film being in the Awards mix. The film is one of a half dozen or so similar films about families going back Poland and the concentration camps. That is not a knock on the subgenre except to say that largely all of them, including the ones based on actual events, are structured exactly the same way.
INSIDE OUT 2
One of the highest grossing films of 2024 is a follow up to the mega-hit from a few years back. While I didn’t like the original film much, I much preferred other variations of the life inside a person genre, I found that I liked this more. It still isn't one of my favorites but I won't squirm if I have to watch it again.
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