Bonello’s unclassifiable attempt at a David Lynch-meets-‘The Fountain’ sci-fi mashup is mysterious, meandering, alluring and confounding all at once, as it explores the nature of love, fear and memory as mediated by the threat of artificial intelligence.
Bonello’s new ‘pandemic lockdown’ film is difficult to pin down—it’s disjointed yet free, disturbing yet human, as it experiments with form, content and aesthetics with varying results.
Bonello’s work about French homegrown terrorism is quite sensational in its thematic provocations and play with cinematic language.
Continue reading →An overall fascinating if strange concoction that tackles big ideas of history, politics and culture, but not always in any purposeful direction.
Eternality Tan 