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Lovecraft Country: Sundown (2020)
Powerful
I doubted this project from the trailer and I was really wrong. Smart, savvy, fearless, honest, and unafraid to get weird. Thanks for giving us something to look forward to next week.
Another Year (2010)
Rich and finely observed
One year. In your life? In anybody's life? In everybody's life?
The film begins with an encounter between everywoman and her doctor: the great Imelda Staunton, pinched and bothered, being treated for insomnia. She hasn't seen a doctor in a year and she wants some pills to put her out. The best of us portraying the worst of us asking god to anesthetize us.
But god won't hear of it. She recommends we get some counseling instead - from her servant and representative in this world, Gerri - whose better half Tom also reaches out benevolently to those less fortunate, caricatures full of ticks and jerks and obsessive behavior and mournful looks.
And so we experience a year – four seasons in the life of these people who are also angels as they toil in the garden. We're unaccustomed to their presence, their goodness. We wonder why they don't have problems. It's because their friends and family do.
Though benevolent and sublime, Tom and Gerri can only offer so much help. And when Gerri feels the line has been crossed that threatens her family, the stern parent emerges. Not angry, but devastatingly disappointed. That straightens Mary right up.
And in the end Mary seems to accept that she won't be lifted up. She'll be lucky to not be left behind. But that's better, even if you can't understand what anyone around you is saying.
Or is it?