Minari + I Care A Lot
Leigh and Tim tackle two very different films this week: Minari and I Care A Lot. One is a moving missive on family and the other is a sinister crime thriller starring Rosamund Pike in fine form. Plus, trailers drop for Cruella and Mortal Kombat; Ron Howard's Thirteen Lives set to film in Queensland; and your chance to win movie tickets.
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MINARI MOVIE REVIEW
Leigh: I loved little David, played by Alan Kim, who was cute and cheeky, and really brought you into Minari. David was a conduit to bring you into this story. He had this innocence of a child, but also a maturity, I guess.
Tim: Yes, he did bring a unique perspective through the eyes of a child and how he interpreted things that were happening around him. But what I really enjoyed about his character was the relationship between the father (Steven Yeun) and the son. That beautiful dialogue and connection. This is why I love these sorts of films because they're character dramas at their core. You're there to follow their journey, experience their feelings and emotions, amongst a beautiful visual backdrop of Arkansas and all of that. But it was deeply personal in how Lee Isaac Chung actually decided to tell that story. It came down to the character relationships and the character drama that was woven into the plot.
Leigh: And speaking of character relationships, you get this great dynamic between cheeky David and his equally cheeky grandma (Oscar-winner Yuh-Jung Youn), who's not a real grandma – as he says throughout – because she's really unconventional, isn't she?
Tim: So unconventional. And I wasn't expecting that. I was sitting back going, ‘Oh, I just want more of Grandma’. I was really surprised by her position in life and her humour, and how she was really on David's side most of the time and just did whatever the hell she wanted. I just loved her character so much. I loved Grandma. I want her. That's my grandma.
I CARE A LOT MOVIE REVIEW
Tim: Can we jump into the style and tone that I Care A Lot was portraying? I want to talk about music, cinematography, the editing as well, but first the music. I fucking loved it. That vivacious…
Leigh: I hated it.
Tim: You hated it?
Leigh: Absolutely hated it. It felt completely wrong for the film.
Tim: Oh, I quite loved the club music. It set that tone and pace, and it was really in your face. You didn't like it?
Leigh: I think it was too overpowering. It's like an ‘80s heist movie or some kind of sci-fi flick. Completely wrong for the tone of the film. It was trying too hard to heighten the tension. And that synthesiser techno music was just too indulgent. It went on for too long… too much. Really jarred me and took me out of the film, to be honest.
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Paddington 3 is officially announced
