Tuesday 8 May 2018

DUCK DUCK GOOSE

Watchable. Great music, pretty good animation, predictable yet suitable for children storyline. Kids  laughed a couple of times. What almost ruins the movie though are the teenager-style dialogues full of slang (at least in the Polish translation) - not exactly for younger audience. There's a mid-credit with the turtle.

D'APRES DU UNE HISTOIRE VRAIE (BASED ON A TRUE STORY)

Watchable. If I hadn't been under the impression that I was watching a more feminine version of "Misery", I would call it intriguing. It's still full of mystery even though it follows the beaten track of a praying-mantis-woman genre. Thoroughly engaging, with a clear-cut storyline. Eva Green creates tension from the first appearance. The puzzle remains after the movie ends. Is she a fan? Or is she writing the novelist's biography? Is she real at all? Has the befriended writer taken over Her personality? Is the ghost writer trying to destroy her? It's clearly a different take on ghosting celebrities' biographies than in Polanski's own earlier "The Ghost Writer". A silly error slipped in: the X-ray of the supposedly metatarsal fracture... doesn't show the metatarsus.

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