new year new me

was on board with this, thank god. felt way more active in its direction than schrader’s last two films (ittedly haven’t finished master gardener because i keep falling asleep to it). always knew elordi would be great in a schrader movie but richard gere really, really brings it. feels a bit rushed, the pieces don’t all fall into place as nicely as they should. almost reads like he was holding in so many ideas while making that last trilogy and…
the first and probably last of its kind. there was a moment during this that was so ridiculous i basically blacked out for 10 minutes from disbelief. was that even allowed?something very Annette (2021) about this, which is a good thing. i will say, i did want out of this multiple times and couldn’t see the light. probably the hardest anyone will ever commit to the bit and for that reason alone i gotta respect it. i’m underselling this thing, it’s fucking ridiculous. technically a monkey mondays movie