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Dylda (2019)
Amateur Effort
I think the filmmaker confuses emotional manipulation with artistic merit. This film should have been 40 minutes shorter and spends so long lingering on people's faces without meaningful dialogue or interesting image composition that you could be forgiven you aren't watching some melodramatic soap opera stuck playing at half speed. Just because a film is provocative doesn't mean it's good. I'm fine with slow cinema, heavy subject matter and minimal dialogue, but so often these days these things are used as mask for confused and shallow directors hedging their bets and hoping that their film will be perceived as something deep and meaningful without doing any of the heavy lifting themselves. Usually films like this at least look good, but the cinematography to me was quite average and the saturated grade is tacky and cheap. I'm giving this three stars because I think so many people who give this a one star review could be perceived and dismissed as people who were shocked and horrified and "just weren't cut out for this type of film". The filmmaker was 28 when he directed this film. If you're under 30, you don't get to direct multiple feature films in Russia without being born into privilege and this film to me comes across as a little rich kid trying desperately to be gritty and bleak.
VHS Massacre (2016)
Bad on almost every level
This film plays like an Instagram story. There's no story arc, the exposition is all out of whack, they cover major plot lines by just throwing up titles, and so much of the movie is just dudes talking about how excited they are to interview some no name actor, pointing out all the vhs they buy from stores for cheap, and then filling it out by just getting their friends to talk about vhs. It's an absolute mess! It's also so narrow in scope. VHS culture needs to be explored and documented, but these filmmakers are not up to scratch.