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Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (2014)
Less a film, more an emotion
This is not a documentary. It's a collection of footage, some of it decayed, presenting not a story of the first world war, but a feeling, an emotional interpretation of the conflict. It's challenging in both what it shows and how it presents it. Soldiers sleeping in the open, in snow, in a trench. The decay of the film merging with a fire, blurring the bodies of the soldiers around them, as if hinting they too, soon, will be consumed.
If you're a fan of his work, this is one of his best. If you want a documentary on the First World War, there are some excellent ones that tell the story. If you want to actually get a little bit of the feeling of how it must have been - the dread, the confusion, the terror - then maybe you'll find that in this film.
The ABC Murders (2018)
Loved this
I didn't think I was even going to like it but by the end of it I really started hoping that they make more.
They made a lot of changes, sure - but how could you go up against the myriad other versions without even trying to do something different? And yes, this was very different - dark, sinister and with nasty undertones.
I was really thinking I wouldn't like Malkovich as Poirot - and in the beginning, I didn't. But I thought he was amazing.
More please...