When Titus is not given a gift at his potential father-in-law's birthday party, his evasiveness is perceived by the girl's parents as a timid attempt to woo their daughter. Everything would be fine, but Tito, who is currently living in London, is waiting for his wife Marta in Lithuania. In order to get a secret divorce, Tito returns to Lithuania, but a meeting between Tito and Marta takes things in an unexpected direction.
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.
The Bluff unravels its mystery slowly, opening on the capture of a ship captain named Bodden (Ismael Cruz Córdova) and the swift execution of his entire crew. Then, viewers are treated to a tranquil British settlement in the Cayman Islands in the 1850s, where a mother bakes a coconut birthday cake for her son in a house suspiciously rigged with makeshift tripwires and burglar alarms. As it turns out, that mother is Priyanka Chopra’s quick witted and resourceful ex-pirate Mrs. Ercell Bodden, and her husband’s captors are on the way to the island to hunt her down for abandoning them and stealing their loot. The pirates of the Libertas land on the beaches of Cayman Brac, and the scenes that follow show a Viking-esque slaughter of half the island.
This theatrical sequel based on the PAW Patrol series features voice actors of color in this action-packed adventure.
Many have interpreted Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon as a dream sequence, but what if the repetitive scenes we are given are not dreams but, a time loop.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
