'The Resort': Five Perfect Minutes and Countless Missed Opportunities
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.

Live performance from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 23 July 2005.
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.
It’s the most loving tribute to cinema and to Ingmar Bergman, set in world that feels so habitable that I felt like only re-watching this for eternity, because of how inviting it looks and feels.
Like many things, like animals and people, they always evolve. When the first humans walked the Earth, they originated from Africa and were all black.
An adventure that centers on freedom and captures viewers' hearts.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.