Kuba and his 3.5-year-old daughter Emilia crash land on a desert planet. While Emilia explores the new world, Kuba tries to repair the rocket listening to the noises from the space, including hypnotic sounds of a black hole. In a parallel, realistic thread, we meet Jagoda, Kuba's partner and Emilia's mother, who suddenly ends up in hospital. Through the messages exchanged with her close ones, we follow the story of her battle with an illness. Meanwhile, on the planet, Emilia discovers life - a land of fantastic flowers. When a black hole comes close to the planet, Emilia rescues Kuba by taking him to a fairy-tale world of a child’s drawings.
Even with its straightforward premise, “Richard Jewell” is ramped up by exceptional drama. In all honesty, the performances are out of this world. As Jewell, Paul Walter Hauser becomes a walking representation of gullibility. His bumbling antics create the perfect hero, and very quickly, we feel the societal heat that surrounds our protagonists.
What are we willing to walk through to see our dreams come to pass? Our minds might be so wholly alive with the passions we carry and the plans we make to see these things become all we wish them to be, yet life doesn’t always want to come alongside. Instead, obstacles arise, both physical and mental, which attempt to dissuade us or even prevent us from moving forward, stalling or stagnating the momentum to achieve what we desire. The age-old question remains….can we overcome? Or will we BE overcome?
The height of subversive horror cinema is Jennifer’s Body. No, I will never budge on that. Yes, Cabin in The Woods is funny, Scream is very well made, and the Scary Movie franchise is …. there. But nothing is quite as satisfying as watching the teenage succubus that is Jennifer Check rip apart boys. In the post #metoo era where the industry is far from changed, watching revenge flicks like these is probably one of the most cathartic experiences due to the slow-moving progress being made.
Hanna Bergholm's 'Hatching' shows us that the modern version of the cardboard world trope is social media.
"The Mitchells vs. The Machines" captures the eternal struggle between kids who want to pursue the arts and their practical parents who think they'll fail.
