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Personal Shopper (2016) dir. Olivier Assays
Speaking of "underwritten", Wilson's discussion of the film's dialogue is surprisingly superficial, coming from a translator. "The language is relentlessly expository, humourless and flat." Once again, the temptation is to respond: yes, and? Followed by: how does this language operate within the matrix of the film? A real review would engage with how Nolan's dialogues interact with the film's other components - the actors, the action scenes, the peculiar characterisation. In a film, language is part of a whole, and just as important as those other elements which are not tied to the written word. This incuriosity about Nolan's dialogue as specifically cinematic dialogue once again betrays Wilson's condescension towards cinema. Anyone who cares about film will find it dispiriting to witness; on a more dispassionate level, it also makes for repetitive, hollow writing.
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi