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Post by brownstones on Mar 1, 2018 22:43:02 GMT
No one is talking about this film.... and I think people should.
(Copy and pasted from old review)
Found myself completely enamored with Phantom Thread. You find yourself oddly empathizing with both leads, if anything you see yourself in both....or maybe I'm just a fucked up human being. Now, I will say it is a bizarre film, somehow being cruel, warm, cold, off putting and tender; and perhaps I'm wrong, but it feels like a deformed cousin to Punch Drunk Love, possibly because they both have "love" as a central theme, or at least a broken sense of love between two broken people (well one broken the other made broken), and had a visual similarity to it in some way as well.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 4, 2018 1:36:49 GMT
Daniel Day-Lewis performs what he has promised to be his last movie role, playing a high-fashion designer of dresses to Royalty and the aristocracy. Reynolds Woodcock (ah, that name…mmm) has lived in the house in London where his shop is also located since birth. He lives there with his sister, Cyril (the peerless Lesley Manville) who runs the business side of his trade and sometimes his personal life as when a girlfriend needs to be escorted from the house (“I gave her the October dress. Is that all right?). He is punctilious, demanding, and extremely self-centered, sort of a Henry Higgins on steroids. While vacationing in the Cotswolds, he becomes smitten by a young waitress (Vicky Krieps – yes, pronounced Vicky Creeps) in a restaurant where he orders breakfast. He gives her a whirlwind tour of the best places in town, then takes her back to his country home where he designs a dress for her on the spot. A first date like nobody else ever had. When, like the others, Reynolds starts to get tired of her, she has to decide on a course of action. Then we get a lesson illustrating Eleanor of Aquitaine’s observation: “What family doesn't have its ups and downs?” Needless to say, the performance from Day-Lewis is precision itself (as was his practice he must have studied carefully how fashion designers work) and Krieps is a find…but…it is not that I don’t enjoy a movie the is “deliberately paced.” In fact, I tend to prefer them; but twice during the runtime of “Phantom Thread” it was all the willpower I had to keep from looking at my watch. I will say in its favor that the plot rarely goes like you think it is going to, but takes a long time getting there with not much point to the journey. Recommended for DVD where you can make judicious use of the fast-forward scan button. Vicky Krieps, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis and Lesley Manville
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