Cinema'n More

    Bugonia  (2025) Strange film…a very strange film, not necessarily in a negative way, actually, but I think it’s objectively fair to call it peculiar. I only just discovered while writing this review that it’s a remake of a South Korean film, good to know. From my side, for a remake, hats off. Yorgos Lanthimos returns to directing after an insane run, marked by two successes (including this one) and one gigantic failure which was (personally) “ Kinds of Kindness ”. At the end of this long relay race, the Greek director (who here also keeps the title inspired by his origins) hands us the “baton” that is “ Bugonia ”. As in almost all of the director’s films, the technical register is untouchable. Excellent cinematography, dirty, extremely grainy, made of very warm and highly saturated tones. The use of the wide-angle is customary for his filmography, even if here he didn’t overdo it as usual with overly “distorted” or “fisheye” lenses. To narrow the field, the choice to...

  Wuthering Heights  (2026) "Wuthering Heights", from the very first trailer it looked like an epochal cringefest, and when I then remembered the director was Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman and Saltburn) my expectations sank even further. However I decided to give myself this Valentine’s Day gift and went to see it with Daria. The premises online were also of a half-pornographic film that only partially winked at "Wuthering Heights" (book), something that from the start didn’t particularly bother me since I’m very in favor of artistic digressions from the source material. The real problem that emerged after seeing it is another.  The huge flaw, with a capital F, of this “Wuthering Heights” (2026) is its lack of courage. It’s a film of disarming cowardice, that neither dares to be as scabrous or provocative as "Saltburn" (or the premise everyone talked about EVERYWHERE online) nor close to the original work. Neither meat nor fish, to put it simply. ...

Hamnet (2025) Chloé Zhao has always been one of my favorite filmmakers. With " Nomadland"  she completely won me over. A simple visual approach that contained a universal cynicism and solitude. One of those films far ahead of the Academy Awards that still managed to break through the mainstream barrier and win a large number of statuettes. A decaying journey in search of the inner self. " Hamnet" had intrigued me from the very beginning. Putting Shakespeare’s work aside for a moment, it had all the right ingredients to draw me in. An excellent cast (led by two Irish giants like Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley), a director I adore, and a fascinating setting. Moreover, months ago I was already hearing whispers from the far West calling the film an incredible emotional masterpiece made of tears and heartbreak. Well, what can I say, I have rarely felt more misled. The story has a strange structure. It feels like a work built in sealed compartments: the first portion, he...