'Empire of Light' Critic Review thread
Synopsis:
A romance develops in a beautiful old cinema on the south coast of England in the 1980s.
Written & Directed by Sam Mendes
Cinematography - Roger Deakins
- 58% Metacritic - 16 reviews.
It’s wonderful that Mendes spent the pandemic making a movie about the irreplaceable vitality of movie theaters — even going so far as to paint them as one of the final strings in what’s left of our social fabric. It would have been even better if he spent the pandemic making a movie worth seeing in one
In Sam Mendes’s film, the power of the movies comes off feeling disappointingly like an afterthought to the script’s more romantic and socially oriented concerns.
In the era when content is king, Sam Mendes still believes in moving pictures. Empire of Light is the proof.
Whatever Mendes’s connection to the material, he’s made something humane and nourishing, a picture of rare thoughtfulness and decency.
Sam Mendes assembles a creative dream-team for Empire of Light, but ends up with one of the most soulless prestige pictures in years.
Submitted December 04, 2022 at 01:37AM by tez-pomy https://ift.tt/2wapPey
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