Saturday 5 November 2022

THE BATMAN

Watchable. Gotham suits the noir genre and a making it into a political thriller is a sensible solution. Yet the first half is slow, only as it develops does it start to puzzle. Chicago stands in for Gotham. Liverpool, Glasgow, London locations are used too. Music is wonderful: Nirvana, Jeff Kryka and a few others set the mood superbly. The music theme stays with you. Robert Pattinson keeps the same face all the time, little acting on his part. Zoë Kravitz is Cat Woman, Penguin appears too. Zoë Kravitz's stunt double Tara Macken performs an enviable double 돌려차기 (dollyo chagi). There's a post-credit.

COMPETENCIA OFICIAL (OFFICIAL COMPETITION)

Watchable. While the film deals with vital issues of how competences are recognised, of actors' rivalry, of varying motivations, the whole cast is spot on, as are the props, it's a film about making one - whoever fancies the genre?! - and overtalked at times, it feels wooden and protracted. The two guys' transformation, visible when one acquires a beard and the other loses it, is simplistic. One thing that left me pondering is when Lola says she hasn't envisaged the film with the original duo - has she set it up or is she acting this time for the media and the public?

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