Song to Song

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Blu B Well compared to Knight of Cups it's ten times better but that isn't saying much. There actually is something here that resembles a story. It's basically a Robert Altman style character study involving multiple characters interacting and the romance/drama of being in a rock star producer behind the scenes with no real centralcharacter amongst 5-6 people. That much I get and credos for actually having a foundation here that is interpretable without needing to look up a wikipedia article or have a professor interpret it for you. And the acting is actually alright with some chemistry here and there. But there is a lot of unnatural acting in this with people staring at times like they are in a Calvin Klien commerical that feels unneeded. Everything else isn't that good here. This jumps around terribly and it's not very obvious what is going on or why a character is acting a certain way. You really have to think for a bit but you can usually piece together the why evenutally. It does feel like at times it is very close to coming off the rails and going full arthouse abstract mode but it does come back eventually. This also drags quite a bit. There are scenes that are so slow or go on forever or are very repetitive. This is beautiful to look at at times but i can be very inconsistent. Sometimes it feels like Malicks best work and other times it feels like I'm watching a documentary or a Marriott commerical. And other times Malick's arthouse tendencies come up as well in a bad way. It is calming and visually stimulating while watching while also having a story and understandable characters. But it isn't really anything I can recommend to anyone. The meaning gets lost in the arthouse tendencies, very slow pacing, jumpy editng, and inconsistent style and unnatural character behaviors. Skip This. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/23/24 Full Review jackie d It's like a two-hour perfume commercial with beautiful people and a great soundtrack Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/15/24 Full Review Ola G In Austin, Texas, Faye (Rooney Mara) is a guitarist looking for success as a musician. She starts an affair with record producer Cook (Michael Fassbender), hoping that he will help her. Then she begins a relationship with BV (Ryan Gosling), who has had slightly more success than she and is also working with Cook. Cook and Faye keep their affair a secret from BV and the three take a trip together to Mexico. Rhonda (Natalie Portman) is a former kindergarten teacher working as a waitress at a diner, where she is courted by Cook. The two eventually marry and he buys her mother a house. Business gets rough between Cook and BV and their professional relationship and friendship end. Faye feels increasingly guilty about her affair with Cook, and finally tells BV, who breaks up with her. Faye then has a relationship with Zoey, a French woman living in the US. Rhonda begins to feel uncomfortable with Cook's wild lifestyle, which includes sex with other women and drugs. BV dates New Yorker Amanda (Cate Blanchett) for some time, but eventually they break up too... Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus reads, "As visually sumptuous as it is narratively spartan, Terrence Malick's Song to Song echoes elements of the writer-director's recent work—for better and for worse." In a five-star review for The Independent, Christopher Hooton claimed that it has become fashionable among critics to ridicule Malick's recent films, but that given a chance the film is a "masterpiece" and even "life-changing". In Entertainment Weekly, Joe McGovern derided it as "incoherent, disconnected, self-interrupting, obsessed with pointless minutiae and crammed full of odd, limp stabs at profundity [...] you’ll find yourself searching in the margins of each shot for something or someone tangible to grasp onto." Film critic Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film two and a half out of four stars. Although he had always praised Malick's work and style in the past ("I don't believe that the Austin-based director has ever made a bad movie"), he wrote that Song to Song "is the first Malick film I’ve watched where the dots never came together to form a legible image", emphasizing the film's need for more "rhetorical connective tissue" that would further connect to the film's themes as well as better characterizations, because of the film's highly chaotic nature. Seitz concluded that the film is "a brainy concept album made up of B-sides and filler. The musicianship is superb but the songs needed work." (Via Wikipedia) Terrence Malick has always gone his own way in his filmmaking and mostly he has succeeded, but lately he has become stuck in creating incoherent, chaotic, more or less non narrative, voice over, disconnected films in which he has an obsession of putting the viewer into his dreamlike chopped up world through the camera lens. I would think the script to "Song to Song" was half an A4 long and then he has shot scene after scene making them up along the way. Like an open stage in which the actors just had "do something" in the scene. As a viewer you feel left out and you never get engaged in the film despite a great ensemble cast and cameos. I didn't even register that Natalie Portman's character took her own life when seeing the film. I red that on Wikipedia. That says a lot. "Song to Song" is simply not working in any way. The film is a scattered mess and not enjoyable in any way. Trivia: After a lengthy post-production period of over three years, the film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10, 2017, and was released in the United States on March 17, 2017, by Broad Green Pictures. Critical reception for the film was mixed. The film's first cut was eight-hour long. (Via Wikipedia) Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/29/24 Full Review SkyRo P "Song to Song" was a chaotic film starring Ryan Gosling and a few other celebrities, but it's hard to determine who the real star is with the messy storyline. Despite the A-list cast, the poorly written script suggests they may not have been as famous back then. It's the kind of film they probably want to forget being a part of. The plot is not just bad, but confusing and hard to follow, whether it's about sex, drugs, or something else entirely. Watching it feels like trying to piece together a jumbled puzzle with no clear picture in sight. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/02/24 Full Review Dani G A very much "Malickesque" film, with the same kind of narrative, cinematography, shots, editing, etc... But this one with a star-studded cast. I would've liked to see more of Cate Blanchett Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/18/24 Full Review Thomas P I think I kind of felt something by the end but it's just so tedious and structureless that I can't really resonate with much right now. Pretty unique but a shorter runtime would have probably made It a more enjoyable "vibes" type of movie. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/12/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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