It sounds padded, but I miss the 19 minutes shorn from it in the aftermath of its disastrous premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, Mr. The film still sprawls, at times beautifully, at times maddeningly, but its ambition and pleasures remain undiminished. Even so, I would rather watch a young filmmaker like Mr. Happily, it never does, which allows you to share in his unabashed joy in filmmaking as well as in his fury about the times.
Only an American who loves his country as much as Mr. The movie is an enraged piece of art that cannot justify its own enragement. As conscious as I am of the fact that Southland Tales represents complete cinematic inanity, I have a bit of a soft-spot for it.
After all, who else but Richard Kelly would dare to commit the aforementioned vision to the silver-screen? Truth be told, I admire Kelly as much as I hate him for failing and daring to fail in such an off-the-wall, idiotic way.
Kelly gets career-best performances out of Gellar who has never been sexier and Johnson, despite the absurdity of their roles. Of what significance their work is, I dunno. You tell me whether or not acting can be significant even when the film that it belongs to is thoroughly insignificant itself. Regardless, the overall loopy quality that Gellar and Johnson embody here steals a host of scenes. The visual effects and cinematography of the film are also worth mentioning, with particularly striking images coming from a sequence towards the end of the film in a flying-over-Los Angeles sequence involving brothers Ronald and Roland.
On the whole, however, the film proves a failure that I am able to appreciate only as a basic exercise in chaos. In fact, the movie proves he has loads of it: His eye for detail is impressive, and he takes chances, which is more than you can say about most filmmakers these days. But sadly, Southland Tales is a disjointed, muddled mess. Ambitious and arresting to the eye -- the gray palette serves the film well -- it's too bad that Southland Tales is also pretentious, chaotic, and tries too hard.
Bai Ling seems much more the right speed. Families can talk about why Hollywood is enamored with apocalyptic scenarios and political conspiracies.
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Southland Tales. Movie review by S. Jhoanna Robledo , Common Sense Media. Apocalyptic thriller is a strange, violent mess. R minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 2 reviews. Based on 3 reviews.
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