“Weird,” as a presumptive aesthetic and assumed attitude, has been plundered to the point of signifying almost nothing. Thus it was a little system shock bearing witness to Lech Majewski’s truly, madly, unfathomably weird Valley of the Gods at last year’s EnergaCAMERIMAGE, only knowing it concerned Native American mythology, John Malkovich as a reclusive trillionaire, and Josh Hartnett as his biographer “whose imagination has the power to alter reality.” That is not selling even one-third of it, which, if forced to compress to an elevator pitch, I would describe as somewhere between the existential concerns of The Tree of Life, Southland Tales‘ sci-fi satire, and the charming gaudiness of a late Alain Resnais picture. (It’s also produced by Kubrick compatriot Jan Harlan and features Keir Dullea in a supporting role; draw your conclusions as to its other allusions.)
So: precisely the kind of film one sees at...
So: precisely the kind of film one sees at...
- 7/21/2020
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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