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Monthly culture: June 2021
Friday, July 30th, 2021 08:31 am03JUN21: Mirage (dir Paulo: 2018)
A time anomaly caused by an electrical storm allows Vera Roy (in 2014) to try to warn Nico (in 1989) not to run out into the storm, no matter what he might see. Nico runs out into the storm: reality changes: Vera is the only one who remembers what originally happened.
A complex timeslip romance with some excellent performances, which I was a little too tired to appreciate fully.
24JUN21: Moxie (dir Amy Poehler: 2021)
Vivian is 16 years old, so knows everything. Her mother is in her 40s, and was a riot grrl back in the Nineties: Vivian, frustrated and angry at the endemic sexism she's experiencing at school, finds her mum's old fanzines and is inspired to start her own, which she calls 'Moxie'. Her best friend Claudia doesn't seem entirely in agreement with the zine's agenda, but Seth, Vivian's new boyfriend, is wholly supportive.
This was a really sweet and timely coming-of-age film, with Amy Poehler being utterly brilliant as Vivian's mother Lisa, and a diverse cast (including one trans woman, though this isn't highlighted as much as it might have been in the film: CJ is played by Josie Totah, who as JJ Totah had a bit part in Spiderman: Homecoming). Excellent soundtrack, though obviously with a more American slant than my own (somewhat hazy) memories of the Nineties. Vivian is played by Hadley Robinson -- who really does look and behave like a younger Amy Poehler -- and Seth by Nico Hiraga: both very good, credible teenagers with a punk/alternative ambience, whose first date is at a funeral parlour where they lie in coffins and listen to Bikini Kill's 'Rebel Girl'. Vivian does have something of an attitude problem, i.e. she is a complete cow at times (I can relate) -- but her friends don't let her get away with it. And the villain of the piece, star jock Mitchell (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger's son Patrick) definitely gets his just deserts. A very enjoyable experience.
A time anomaly caused by an electrical storm allows Vera Roy (in 2014) to try to warn Nico (in 1989) not to run out into the storm, no matter what he might see. Nico runs out into the storm: reality changes: Vera is the only one who remembers what originally happened.
A complex timeslip romance with some excellent performances, which I was a little too tired to appreciate fully.
24JUN21: Moxie (dir Amy Poehler: 2021)
Vivian is 16 years old, so knows everything. Her mother is in her 40s, and was a riot grrl back in the Nineties: Vivian, frustrated and angry at the endemic sexism she's experiencing at school, finds her mum's old fanzines and is inspired to start her own, which she calls 'Moxie'. Her best friend Claudia doesn't seem entirely in agreement with the zine's agenda, but Seth, Vivian's new boyfriend, is wholly supportive.
This was a really sweet and timely coming-of-age film, with Amy Poehler being utterly brilliant as Vivian's mother Lisa, and a diverse cast (including one trans woman, though this isn't highlighted as much as it might have been in the film: CJ is played by Josie Totah, who as JJ Totah had a bit part in Spiderman: Homecoming). Excellent soundtrack, though obviously with a more American slant than my own (somewhat hazy) memories of the Nineties. Vivian is played by Hadley Robinson -- who really does look and behave like a younger Amy Poehler -- and Seth by Nico Hiraga: both very good, credible teenagers with a punk/alternative ambience, whose first date is at a funeral parlour where they lie in coffins and listen to Bikini Kill's 'Rebel Girl'. Vivian does have something of an attitude problem, i.e. she is a complete cow at times (I can relate) -- but her friends don't let her get away with it. And the villain of the piece, star jock Mitchell (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger's son Patrick) definitely gets his just deserts. A very enjoyable experience.
