#son of saul
SON OF SAUL (László Nemes, 2015)
I may not have been in the right frame of mind for this Oscar winning film as it just didn’t connect with me. For me, the camera work (tight shot over Saul’s shoulder for most of the film) doesn’t feel immersive like a lot of people say it is. Instead, it made all the events around Saul feel distant as most things were obscured, out of focus or out of frame. That deadened what ever emotional impact Son of Saul might have had.
2/5
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Traumatized by the death of his wife, a Hasidic cantor (Géza Röhrig) obsesses over how her body will decay. He seeks answers from a local biology professor (Matthew Broderick) in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, the unlikeliest of buddy comedies. Winner of Best New Narrative Director and the Narrative Audience Award at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Snyder’s hilarious film is also a wrenching meditation on grief and features, in Son of Saul’s Röhrig, one of the past year’s most underrated screen performances.
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