Tag: Paul Mescal
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Hamnet: touching & beautiful, but take tissues
Hamnet is a magnificent film – beautiful, touching, brilliant. I have no doubt that it will earn many best picture awards from various places. My question is will Chloé Zhao also win as many awards as best director, because she deserves it for this outstanding work. There are a couple of spoilers ahead.
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Foe review: I mean, what?
Foe is set in 2065. The earth is burned to a crisp. Hen (Saoirse Ronan) and Junior (Paul Mescal) live in an old house on a dried up farm. Late one night Terrance (Aaron Pierre) knocks on their door. He says he’s from the government and wants to recruit Junior to work for a year…
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Aftersun, fragments of a distant past
Aftersun is the story of a father and daughter on vacation in Turkey, but overarching that is the now grown daughter’s struggle to understand her father through adult eyes. This review contains spoilers.
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Review: The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal directs
The Lost Daughter takes an intimate and unflinching look at the contradictions and imperfections of motherhood. Maggie Gyllenhaal wrote and directed this touching and disturbing film based on a novel by Elena Ferrante. It’s Gyllenhaal’s first time directing. You can see it on Netflix.
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Review: Normal People
Normal People is an Irish series streaming on Hulu. It tells the story of two people who love each other but are unable to make it fully work.