Join us every week for a trip into the weird and wonderful world of trailers. Whether it’s the first teaser for the latest instalment in your favourite franchise, an obscure preview for a strange indie darling, whether it’s good, bad, ugly or just plain weird – your favourite pop culture baristas are there to tell you what they think.
But wait, there are more trailers waiting for you, starting with one for a strange, beguiling Italian gem.
Mege: I didn‘t much care for Lazzaro Felice – it went on for far too long and lost its initial magic by half-time. There is, however, a kind of wonder that Alba Rohrwacher is able to project that seems to come from inside her characters. I like that she throws Josh O‘Connor in the middle of an Italian bunch of people and lets him fend for himself.
Matt: The purpose of trailers is to get the audience interested in seeing a film. However, I often end up seeing the same trailer a half-dozen times or more, because our favourite cinema tends not to have more than four, five trailers in circulation at the same time. Sometimes that isn’t a problem, but sometimes this ends up putting me off a film, even if I quite enjoyed the trailer the first one or two times. By the fifth or sixth time, though, some trailers begin to grate. The Monk and the Gun (by Pawo Choyning Dorji, the director of Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom) doesn’t look like a bad film, but there’s a pandering, twee quality to the trailer that bothered me more and more, so that by now I’ve relegated the film to my “Might watch this once it’s shown on Film Four… maybe list. I’ve yet to figure out exactly which trailers I can see seven, eight times and still be interested in the film, and which trailers I can see only two, three times before they begin to put me off.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 