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- Based on a 2006 novel by Janet Fitch, Paint It Black combines the brooding intensity of a slow-burn thriller with the high-flown ornamentation of a gothic melodrama.
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Paint It Black. Drama. 96 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2017. Mark Dujsik. May 19, 2017. 5 min read. The camera surveys a motel room late in “Paint It Black.” It spins on an axis, taking in the entirety of the space. We know that the room is the site of a suicide. We know the general details—a self-inflicted gunshot to the head—but little more.
May 19, 2017 · What happens to a dream when the dreamer is gone? Paint It Black is the story of the aftermath of Michael's death, and Josie's struggle to hold onto the true world he shared with her.
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- Janet Mcteer
- Amber Tamblyn
- A Tale of Two Women
- The Painful Power of Unanswered Questions
- Finding Beauty in Tragedy
- Conclusion
Josie (Alia Shawkat, rawer than you’ve ever seen her before) is an art model and punk rock party girl desperately in love with Michael (Rhys Wakefield), a sensitive artist from a wealthy society family led by renowned pianist Meredith (Janet McTeer, excellent as always) and “the Jewish Hemingway”, Cal (Alfred Molina). It’s clear that Josie and Mich...
It’s obvious that Meredith and Michael had a somewhat Oedipal relationship – Meredith even throws the term around herself during her dinner with Josie. But the film leaves the degree of their incredibly closeness rather opaque; it is implied that incest may have occurred, but never proven. Yet even with these unpleasant thoughts lurking in the back...
Tamblyn’s Los Angeles appears to be the same one showcased in Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon: all flashing strobe lights, deeply saturated colors and hallucinatory images. The colorful shots and storytelling veering on the edge of melodrama also harken back to Rainer Werner Fassbinder films such as The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant(another ...
Sometimes less is more, and that is a lesson that Tamblyn still needs to learn. Yet overall Paint It Blackis a very impressive directorial debut, all the more so because it chooses to tell what on the surface could have been a story centered around a man through the voices and perspectives of two women. All too often, it is the other way around, wi...
I watched Paint It Black knowing nothing about it. My interest had been piqued by Alia Shawkat being the lead (a disgracefully rare occurrence). I assumed, based on its poster, that it was a horror film. It's not. But, with themes of extreme coddling, grief, and classism, it's still rather unsettling. It is not entirely successful.
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- Amber Tamblyn
Stir of Echoes is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written and directed by David Koepp and based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas and Kevin Dunn.
May 19, 2017 · Paint It Black is powerful, but not forceful, touching, but not hysterical, and a film that manages to effect and entrance in a subtle and profound manner.
Paint It Black is vibrant with emotion, and authentic in its journey, presenting an arc of grief that is raw, riveting, and surreally beautiful. Full Review | May 17, 2017
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