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Oxygène (2021)
A potential masterpiece ruined by director's insecurity
Apart from some logical mistakes it could have actually been a modern sci-fi classic. Intense and beautiful, with many classical sci-fi elements. And very unusual for a sci-finto be french! Although, the last 10 seconds literally made the rating drop from 9 to 7. In one sense i actually even think those last 10 seconds pretty much destroyed the movie entirely so maybe to be fair, it shouldve gotten max 5. But everything up to the last seconds was superb so I cant help myself to give it 7. Anyway, a perfect example of a unexperienced director that is so unsecure so that he/she feels the need to state something which is already obvious and already communicated, but in the cheeziest, most Hollywood B-movie way imaginable.
Spring Uje spring (2020)
Probably the worst Swedish movie ever made
There really is no plot in the movie. It is a slow pondering of a man's and his family new situation learning about his serious disease. That can work, if the characters are interesting and if there is emotional magic between the actors. But there is none, even though the main actors are actually related.
The director and script writer try, in a highly cringe-worthy way, to put forward a lot of political messages which are politically correct in Sweden, making the movie a kind of confirmation bias and feel good for those Swedes that adhere to those ideas. If these political ideas would instead be challenged and more deeply explored, it would give a wholly new depth. Instead, political statements are just lined up and easily dismissed instead of problematizing them, making the movie cringy.
Nota bene: I am a big cineast and have watched a great amounts of movies. Still I have never written a review here. However, the audacity of this movie's claim of being such an original and good movie made me had to write this review for sake of review balance.