15/22
After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation
Scenario
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian previews the 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, strangely erotic Misericordia.
Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature film
He appeared in the project 7PM: Episode of September 8, 2024 (2024). Despite the serious subject (Euthanasia), the film is extremely boring, disjointed and completely devoid of emotion.
Turturro’s character is flat and uninteresting
I wonder how it managed to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The interconnected stories simply do not make sense (see the interpolation about the homosexual Carmelite friars).
Come on Pedro, you can do better than that
The script reads like political propaganda and does not come from the heart. I’m not sure Tilda Swinton was the best choice for the role, but since The Human Voice she seems to appear in all of Almodovar’s English-language films.
There have been a number of euthanasia films (eg
Amenabar’s Mar Adentro) that are certainly more noteworthy than this, frankly, mediocre effort.
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