Bank employee Ivan takes bribes, sleeps with the boss's wife and carelessly cuts through the streets on a scooter. Until he gets into an accident and finds himself in the hands of a cunning Bes, who offers him a choice: a direct road to hell for a bunch of sins or the murder of one completely unfamiliar person.
Seriously, and this is coming from someone who was extremely skeptical before giving it a watch. I assumed the show would be painfully boring, but one of the show's strongest qualities is you needn't know anything about the lore to get invested in it.
This remake of the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name brings a strong representative cast.
Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.
With The Father, writer-director Florian Zeller- who wrote and developed the play upon which the film is based- pulls no punches as he confidently makes every effort to put the audience in the mind of someone whose grip on reality has all but vanished. It’s a dazzling testament to Zeller’s abilities as a director as he makes his first transition from stage to film appear as if he’s been working behind a camera his entire career. The dialogue he fashions with co-writer Christopher Hampton, along with the work of production designers Peter Francis and Cathy Featherstone, collectively makes the downward spiral of dementia startlingly tangible, doing so in a way that can be comprehended by everyone except the person it directly affects.
It's good for your film viewing needs, but isn’t going to shake your world. Demonic is trippy sci-fi fun, and that’s about it. And that's pretty cool.
Vicenza, a Brazilian girl, goes on a quest by herself to find out who her birth father is by gathering clues.
