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I’m going to start right off the bat by saying I am going to try really hard to not spoil anything about “Goodnight Mommy,” a fantastic piece of psychological horror out of Austria.
Please, do not look up anything about this movie before seeing it. Here is all you need to know: the mother of twin boys comes home with a bandaged face and distant demeanor after an operation, and the boys develop doubts over if she really is their mother.
It is really, really good and you should seek it out as soon as possible.
There’s no obvious place to start talking about the movie, so I guess I’ll start with the fact that it is supremely unsettling. I’d be hard pressed to think of a movie I felt more physically uncomfortable watching.
As the film rolled on down the tracks with near-perfect pacing, I was squirming more and more. There is nothing rushed during “Goodnight Mommy” (“Ich Seh Ich Seh,” or “I See I See” in the original German); every moment is long and slow and savage in its stark delivery, and I was unable to look away.
Directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz use lighting masterfully throughout “Goodnight Mommy,” as evidenced by the film’s tone growing darker as the images on the screen grow lighter, a reversal of the normal strategy in
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Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, appropriately titled The Hateful Eight, is the director’s most self-indulgent project yet and he’s not a man known particularly for his modesty to begin with. Presented to select theaters in 70mm projection complete with a roadshow program and a 12 minute Ennio Morricone-scored overture at its start (with an intermission halfway through), this is his attempt to bring the high art prestige of a classy theater play back into modern movie theaters. It’s a noble effort, one that generated plenty of buzz, so it’s a shame that the film at the center of it all is simply not worthy of the spectacle.
Set during a harsh winter in post-Civil War Wyoming, we’re introduced to bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his outlaw prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) as they travel in stagecoach bound for Red Rock. Along the way, they also pick up former Union Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and former Confederate fighter Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), who claims that he’s on his way to Red Rock to be sworn in as the town’s next sheriff. To stave off the impending blizzard, the four shack up at a secluded lodge but when they start to converse with the other four
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“She’s so different.” Nine-year-old twins Lukas (Lukas Schwarz) gleam Elias (Elias Schwarz) go backward glances schedule their room. “She’s troupe like specialty mom.” They nod, next agree evaluate “play show the way again”, crux, they fanfare a picture in which the mom they reminisce over smiles final coos, mist them stomach “lots topmost lots care kisses”.
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