LaLouch Reviews

Werewolves Within (2021)

Good to watch in your bed and fall asleep, and taking it back the next day

[5/10 · 12 July 2021]

A very light a script but ok if you just need to think of nothing, a bit tired by your yesterday evening party, you may grab a blanket and watch it.

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (2019)

Beautiful

[7/10 · 30 September 2020]

Beautiful peace of art with colours that will take you into this well narrated story. Perfect for children, and a good time to have for adults. I

A Single Man (2009)

As tailored as a suit

[9/10 · 21 February 2020]

First ting that hit me was the aestheticism and photo of this picture that really are coherent with the talent of Tom Ford. That kind of shots that are always studied to be perfect. The acting is marvellous, Colin Firth and JM being very modest but extremely touching. This film smells Tuscan Leather and has great materials. A must see for me

Togo (2019)

Thrilling even if errors

[8/10 · 1 January 2020]

The directing is not perfect, music sometimes does not fit and some comic scenes are a bit out of subject. But Defoe is good and dogs even better. I was not very touched by the film until the last part of it that really hit me. Tissues may be useful.

Ad Astra (2019)

Disappointing (spoilers)

[6/10 · 21 September 2019]

P:

• Soundtrack is great - Max Richter is really good at making soft and lunar music that gets off the roads of well known composers.
• The near-future-ideas : the moon is conquered and easy to reach. The standards of living seem way higher with a very expensive pillow blanket pack. Tablets are now full glass. But fashion, design seem still close to our time. That proves reflection on this part and a few films succeed in making it realistic (the best for me is Her).
• Details : the traces on the wall on the Moon when he talks to his father's old partner; the walls that are not totally soft in the relation room...

C :

• you actually do not care.. The characters are so poorly developed that you have no real interest in seeing Brad Pitt meeting again his father. You have no empathy for them. They both seem very mind focused, very severe. One is obsessed by his job, the other by his father but they never try to include the viewer in it. It is an intimate relationship that you cannot enter in.
• Science errors / unrealistic scenes : there are a lot...

The monkey scene - we use monkeys for long time it is very doubtful that a so much aggressive animal has been able to defeat an entire crew. Entering the rocket while it starts.. no need to develop.. Launching himself with the nuclear explosion... Lunar Buggy - they apparently switch the very tough ones with the one golf buggy to play on the moon...

• acting : that was too much. Too much crying, too much dad/son problems with no explanation

Actually this film is just well presented, pretty and lead by very talented actors. So you might seem 'ok that will be good'. That is not the case because it is not enough deep for me - just some kind of good presentation.