More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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1) Even with a road-trip* (especially ?), a director should earn the right to behave as if a film's emotionally taken anyone somewhere else :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 26, 2024
Hanging affectless exchanges in the air may make other, flat scenes seem pacy, but is unsubtle.
* Ostensibly.#CivilWarAndAlexGarland
2) Civil War (2024) establishes no more on-screen relationship or rapport between Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) and Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst) than with Joe (Wagner Moura) or Sammy (Stephen McKinley), yet thinks us willing to behave as if it had done.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 27, 2024
But...#CivilWarAndAlexGarland
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)