I guess that's ambiguously phrased. She was (allegedly) 23 in the '90s.

Yeah, Daniel Clowes was supposed to write the script. Hasn't happened yet; dunno if it's still in development or dead.

The vast majority of their collection is auteur-driven. It's rare for them to release a movie by a director with zero rep, which is why I pointed it out. Doesn't mean it was a poor choice (I obviously like the film); just said it's odd, which it is.

Maybe I'll tackle that scene at some point. But the upshot is: Ed Crane loves his wife.

White and sorta pompadour-ish. But yeah, it wasn't intended as an insult. I just hadn't seen him since like 1991 (I don't think), so I was surprised by the transformation.

Okay, fine. Run this through rot13.

Really?

As a reader, hearing that a movie has a shitty twist suffices. I don't have a burning need to know what the shitty twist actually is. Others apparently do, but it gets exhausting to write a Spoiler Space for every movie with any kind of twist, given how many twisty movies I get assigned. I prefer to do that only if…

I took the movie plenty seriously. You're largely objecting to my criticism of a particular moment in which Wise doesn't take the matter seriously, choosing to make a would-be witty remark that in no way bolsters his case. I responded with an analogy that's equally absurd; that was by design.

That has nothing to do with Wise's ridiculous statement. I'm not saying that chimps are happy outside of their natural habitat; I'm saying that the question of whether a human being would be happy in the same conditions is completely irrelevant, which it obviously is.

Not sure what you think I gave away.

Yep.

I saw the 9/11 anthology thing and yeah, Penn's contribution is staggeringly awful and offensive. Still, I didn't expect him to maintain that level of awful for over two hours.

I might circle back to it (and to the Bellocchio and the Panh), but it's not in this dispatch because it's the film I had the least to say about. It's nice. If you've seen Still Walking, you've basically seen this.

Is it sarcastic, somehow? "Beaucoup" usually signifies "very much."

Exactly, except with "passionnement" between "beaucoup" and "à la folie." Is this a common system?

I wish I had time too. When I first started coming here I just saw films all day long, didn't write anything until I got home. Those were the days.

The relationship in Take Shelter actually gets tested. The one in Loving never does. That's the problem.

Merci!

It's not a love story. Unless your definition of a love story is "two people start the film already loving each other and just keep loving each other unwaveringly 'til the end." If that sounds exciting to you, don't miss this.