I totally hear you! I feel conflicted about this movie, because on one hand -- I looooved it as just a purely archetypal gutteral scream. The heavy-handed/somewhat hollow nature works for a campy in-your-face middle finger at Beauty Standards.
BUT, on the other hand, there's NO characterization, so it can easily be read in a flat way, assuming that Women Of A Certain Age all feel hollow without the attention of youth, rather than admitting this is about a very heightened scenario for an actress. It doesn't really deconstruct enough to feel like it's actually saying anything beyond "look at this BS" and because of that, some of the gratuitous gawking at the aging female body can visually reinforce the shit it's critiquing.
Clearly, I have lots of contradictory feelings lol.
Yes I agree with all of this!! And I also read another comics Letterboxd review and it got me to thinking *Carrie voice* - do we think this is suppose to be cerebral just because the director is French? But you are perfectly saying a lot of things I think. I think if you don’t expect it to be very brainy it is more fun
I totally hear you! I feel conflicted about this movie, because on one hand -- I looooved it as just a purely archetypal gutteral scream. The heavy-handed/somewhat hollow nature works for a campy in-your-face middle finger at Beauty Standards.
BUT, on the other hand, there's NO characterization, so it can easily be read in a flat way, assuming that Women Of A Certain Age all feel hollow without the attention of youth, rather than admitting this is about a very heightened scenario for an actress. It doesn't really deconstruct enough to feel like it's actually saying anything beyond "look at this BS" and because of that, some of the gratuitous gawking at the aging female body can visually reinforce the shit it's critiquing.
Clearly, I have lots of contradictory feelings lol.
Yes I agree with all of this!! And I also read another comics Letterboxd review and it got me to thinking *Carrie voice* - do we think this is suppose to be cerebral just because the director is French? But you are perfectly saying a lot of things I think. I think if you don’t expect it to be very brainy it is more fun