There are two good movies out this weekend -- the horror flick When Evil Lurks which I reviewed right here, and The Royal Hotel with Julia Garner which I have not had the time to review due to NYFF duties but which is very fine and worth seeing. And there are two bad movies out this weekend -- There is the new Exorcist which made me so angry I could even talk about it, and there is Foe with Saoirse Ronan & Paul Mescal which is a mess (but it is a pretty mess and Paul gets naked a lot, so, you know, watch it sometime anyway). But none of those are my weekend recommendation -- I say go watch the Francis Bacon biopic Love is the Devil, which is turning 25 tomorrow. You can rent it on Amazon or other places. It stars Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig and Tilda Swinton and it's one of my favorite artist biopics and not just (not just) because Daniel Craig spends much of it naked and gay. Any fans?
My brain has fully hit a wall but I have another NYFF review hitting over the weekend, and I'll be pounding out more to come, so stay tuned. I'm reportedly seeing two more movies over the weekend -- if I can go home tonight and stare at a wall and be very very still, I might even make it to both of them. We'll see. Anyway! My NYFF screening schedule is much lighter next week, so you'll have more of me! That sounds like such a threat, and perhaps it is. I don't know you. Have a good weekend and we'll talk. Bye.
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3 comments:
how naked is Paul in Foe? and also is Mark RUffalo the only one that gets naked in Poor Things, do the other male cast members go naked because I've read Emma has a lot of sex scenes
Paul shows his butt a lot -- there's one shot where you might be able to see his dick but it's an outdoors shot, shot from high above by a drone, so he's ant sized and I doubt we'll get anything from that. But you won't be disappointed by the nudity I don't think, not if you prize Paul's ass the way Paul's ass deserves to be prized
I think Mark is the only name cast member who's naked -- her character becomes a prostitute for a bit and there's a series of Johns but they're all bit parts
Love is the Devil provides also the best Film Perf by Sir Derek Jacobi, another reason to watch it with pleasure
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