Darkness at Noon : A review (work in progress, allegedly) of Rebuilding Paradise (2020)
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Darkness at Noon : A review (work in progress, allegedly) of Rebuilding Paradise (2020)
#RebuildingParadise (2020), by Ron Howard, is both terrifying and a mover to tears, with its emotive, personal and thoughtful touches :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 28, 2020
This is film-making that is wise as well as intelligent, and it needs more than a large screen at home (or a computer-screen). pic.twitter.com/W5fU1jcDge
We see the arch-heresiarch #Frump, and hear him saying (before declaring how terrible it is) We have just left Pleasure [sic], and one of his entourage swiftly correcting him, but - as throughout - there is no comment, no overlaid assertion from director Ron Howard, who has constructed ths film so that nothing is needed, only a chronology by inter-title [i.e. Three months after the fire, etc.].
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 28, 2020
As Howard well knows, given when and how we are presently watching, being able to choose to offer hugs rather than handshakes [on which Woody Culleton (or another ?) specifically remarks] is now a proximity and a possibility from which we are undesirably kept distant - we will even see people expressing their feelings, and, having been accustomed to these times, at least think that they are behaving rashly, if we do not, for that reason, shudder in recognition of what we have lost.
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
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