Yesterday, 03:55 PM
https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...7#pid80587
Seen at AMC Sunnyvale. From the trailer, I was thinking this was going to be more Bonnie & Clyde, but I think it's a little more Sid & Nancy (from what I can remember of that film). Less action and more outsiders struggling with their identities (bride more than Frank) and their relationship.
The narrative is a bit scattered. It opens in b/w with a really tight closeup on Jesse Buckley as Mary Shelley explaining that she wrote Frankenstein on a a dare, but didn't get to tell the story she wanted to and is going to do that now (she's a little angry about that), but she's not sure how to do that and decides to possess someone...a party girl (Jesse Buckley) and it switches to color where Buckley becomes possessed and gets to show off her acting chops by switching between American party girl and angry Victorian British Mary Shelly mid-sentence.
The chemistry between Buckley and Christian Bale is good, but the story tries to be about her coming to terms with her identity while also throwing in a #MeToo movement, Moulin Rouge, and more of this than is needed...(I think it detracts from what directory Maggie Gyllenhaal is trying to say)
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Jake Gyllenhaal is the singing/dancing star of the era and Frankie constantly goes to the movie theater to watch him dance.
It could have been better IMHO.
--tg
Seen at AMC Sunnyvale. From the trailer, I was thinking this was going to be more Bonnie & Clyde, but I think it's a little more Sid & Nancy (from what I can remember of that film). Less action and more outsiders struggling with their identities (bride more than Frank) and their relationship.
The narrative is a bit scattered. It opens in b/w with a really tight closeup on Jesse Buckley as Mary Shelley explaining that she wrote Frankenstein on a a dare, but didn't get to tell the story she wanted to and is going to do that now (she's a little angry about that), but she's not sure how to do that and decides to possess someone...a party girl (Jesse Buckley) and it switches to color where Buckley becomes possessed and gets to show off her acting chops by switching between American party girl and angry Victorian British Mary Shelly mid-sentence.
The chemistry between Buckley and Christian Bale is good, but the story tries to be about her coming to terms with her identity while also throwing in a #MeToo movement, Moulin Rouge, and more of this than is needed...(I think it detracts from what directory Maggie Gyllenhaal is trying to say)
Jake Gyllenhaal is the singing/dancing star of the era and Frankie constantly goes to the movie theater to watch him dance.
It could have been better IMHO.
--tg