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.
Jean-Pierre Melville is mainly known for making films that could be described stylish gangster existentialism. Le silence de la mer however is very different from Le samouraï or The Red Circle – but no less compelling, provided you can get into its much more internalised drama about a different kind of resistance from what we’re used to at the movies, as Matt argued in his post.
Sam wrote about the kind of Avengers that made for cult viewing before the ones that took over multiplexes in the last dozen years in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees.
Which brings us to this week’s regular trailers.
Mege: There is the metaphor of cleaning up your life in the way of a crime scene cleaner, but there is also the gap of being adppted as a subsequently unwanted child and trying to find your real mother. I am intrigued.
Matt: Adrian Tomine’s comics about modern-day angst found an immensely sexy but nonetheless fitting expression in the recent French film Les Olympiades. Shortcomings keeps Tomine’s stories closer to where they originated, and it also seems closer to the originals in the awkwardness of its characters. Will it stick too closely to the comics? What works on the page doesn’t necessarily work the same on the screen. But neither does every Tomine’s adaptation have to be sexy and French, obviously, so I’m happy to find out how well Shortcomings captures the vibes of Tomine’s writing and art.
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