CiNEMERCATOR - Paul Thomas Anderson MAGNOLIA 1999
Filmlover,
4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
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CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:30
start 20:00
ticket 3 Euro
nxt edition:
19-11
'What am I doing? I'm quietly judging you.'
Magnolia is an act of emotional excess that becomes sincere through sheer conviction. Coming off Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson pushes himself into a denser, more wayward honesty: a mosaic of wounded people orbiting the same ache: Tom Cruise delivers perhaps his most vulnerable performance; a man built entirely out of armor, cracking from the inside out. Julianne Moore vibrates with the kind of sorrow that feels dangerous to touch. Philip Seymour Hoffman acts with disarming stillness, a quiet counterpoint to the film’s storms. John C. Reilly gives us a cop so earnest he feels almost mythic in his clumsiness and Jason Robards, in one of his final roles, brings death not as spectacle but as gravity. Coincidence turns into choreography, lives are spinning, intersecting, collapsing under weather that feels both; literal and divine. And when the sky finally breaks, it’s less revelation than relief: the world forgiving itself- just for a moment- for being unbearable...
This film is chosen by Maaike.
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