Yorgos Lanthimos The Lobster is one weird movie. I don’t often do well with movies I find to be weird. Some movies that have gotten high ratings with the critics are so utterly dreadful that they are virtually unwatchable. The tone is simple, the dialect is weird, and the actions are peculiar, but the overall strangeness of these movies makes the experience a chore. I know some love Wes Anderson and to each his own. The Lobster feels very similar to one of these Anderson movies, but, oddly enough, it held my interest. While I didn’t understand why a movie so strange needed to be made, I found it engaging, and it really didn’t feel like I was watching it just to say that I watched it. While I didn’t like it and would never watch it again, there were parts of it
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Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Not only should 2013’s Blue Is The Warmest Color been nominated for a 2013 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but if you are judging by all of the standards on how the Academy usually selects its films, I think that it also should have been one of the nominations for Best Picture that year. Despite some lousy press associated after the release of this film, which I will discuss in this review, this movie might be the honest and most real movie of the year. This is a film that most people have never seen, and most people will never see. You are not alone if you have never heard of this movie. It amassed just $2.2 million domestically, and its NC-17 rating kept it out of most theaters. However, this movie is just as, if not more important, as 2012’s Amor (like Blue Is The Warmest Color, also French), which earned a spot as one of the best nine movies of that less-than-spectacular year.
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