Four middle-aged Jutland men are relaxing in their refuge, the local bathing club sauna. Their peace and quiet is shattered when Michael, a Copenhagen artist, and Jean-Paul, a Frenchman with Moroccan ancestry enter the sauna. The foursome is bemused by the intruders' presence. Due to the language barrier created by the newcomers' English conversation and the bigoted values they perceive the situation through, the foursome begin to question the newcomers' motives for being there.
The Cycle refuses to lean into the same old, same old monster-movie tropes and builds the entire premise around the intellect and the history of a capable, smart female protagonist.
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This is a film that is going to leave some people bored, and some people thrilled.
Ultimately the problem with The Bubble is that it plays everything for laughs to get around the audience’s defenses. But it comes off like a privileged white male thinking that ridiculing everyone else equally is the road to equality. And it’s not. And it's definitely not funny to pretend that it is.
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.
