The amount of movies coming out regularly is staggering, but the good ones are so very rare. Why is that? we know money is no guarantee for quality, and neither is star power.
Anyway, whatever the formula, one thing is true - good writing is always at the root of them all.
Moonrise Kingdom is the best of the crop at the moment - a solid, funny, smart and effective story that keeps moving along at a summery pace, packed with little visual and literal surprises that warm our hearts and remind us of our own past dreams and unlived adventures, family craziness, and the simplicity of life in the summers of our youth, before technology invaded every aspect imaginable.
Then there is Take This Waltz - a Canadian production, filmed in Toronto's familiar downtown streets and neighbourhoods. It's like watching a Tourism Ontario promotional video, starring Michelle Williams, for 2 hours.
The visuals are stunning, both Toronto and Michelle never looked better than through the lens of Sarah Poly. Beautiful eyes, luminous skin, graceful body and lips to die for, and the lovely decrepitness of those Victorian houses we know so well, the beaches and markets - but all that beauty is not enough to save us from wondering why we are watching this predictable story. We are bogged with that familiar nagging question: "are we there yet?" every 5 minutes or so in the last 45 minutes. The soundtrack is also very Canadian and lovely, which helps but - we know from the title that Leonard Cohen's song is bound to resonate, and when at last his comforting voice comes on, when the credits start to roll, all we want it to be released.
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