consummation

Okja (2017) dir. Bong Joon-ho

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

Let’s cut the crap, shall we?

All For The Game by Nora Sakavic

“Mistress Epps won’t even grant me no soap ta clean with. Stink so much I make myself gag. Five hundred pounds ‘a cotton day in, day out. More than any man here. And ‘fo that I will be clean; that all I ask.”

Oscar Isaac in ‘Drive’, 2011.

Dunkirk (2017) dir. Christopher Nolan

CAROL

I could have saved them.

There’s no hiding from this, son. We have a job to do. If we go back there we’ll die  - Dunkirk (2017)

He converted to Islam in 1999, after attending a mosque with his future wife. His faith, he says, has helped him become a better actor: “It benefits me from the standpoint of really creating empathy for these characters that I try to embody, other human beings with issues as deep and personal as my own. Because of Islam, I am acutely aware that I am a work in progress.” The daily practice of the religion, he says, “puts a healthy pressure on you to be your best self, beginning with your own spirit and how that feeds into your actions.”

“The long take, far more common in art house cinema, also has the effect that it allows the viewer to recognize himself in relation to the film. In other words, rather than ‘getting lost in the plot’, the viewer becomes increasingly aware of his role as a spectator.” +

Tom Holland for GQ UK Magazine (July 2017)

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