Pacifiction

I guess colonial power, geopolitical maneuvering and apocalyptic anxiety in the modern age is sorta like being at the club with zero idea what's going on outside of the intense visual/sonic vibrations. Albert Serra's Too Old to Die Young? Miami Vice? Or maybe Zama? I don’t…

Josh Lewis

This feels like a culmination of sorts for Serra. It is predicted in two of his favorite moves, the tension between character and environment and the promise of a death ceremonial, but Magimel colonial bureaucrat comes off much closer to him and less a symbol as in most of…

Filipe Furtado

There's a scene in this where our main character sits in his car and monologues, seemingly endlessly, to the man sitting next to him, who is desperately fighting to stay awake. Watching this film, I was that man.

Paul Gallagher

70 Submerges itself into an intoxicated mix of tropical menace, land disputes, nuclear threats, and commodified bodies - all while an aloof lackadaisical figurehead is desperately turning up the charm in order to feel something. There's a harrowing foreboding quality to…

SilentDawn

Tag yourself. I’m the sleepy guy in the Hawaiian shirt who doesn’t really know what’s going on.

daniel goldhaber

As long as there's an Albert Serra Q&A I suppose I will continue showing up, but I keep wondering how a man so funny and charming keeps churning out such boring, faux-vocative movies. A few breathtaking shots of sunsets and the sea, but otherwise I'm not sure what I just…

KYK

Drenched in atmosphere, Pacifiction is a strange, disorientating, politically disturbing thriller. Told elliptically Pacifiction leaves us as confused as the characters, with hard to follow plot strands unwinding and then coiling together throughout the entire movie. Much…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

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eme

A near three hour long meandering stroll through the island landscapes of French Polynesia that is undeniably pretty at points, mostly baffling at others. Almost nothing to latch on to emotionally but intellectually there is a lot at play here. It’s just unfortunately…

Matt Neglia