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Her Smell (2018)

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KaramAkerfeldt
Everything about this is very bad. 2 years 7 months ago
Siskoid
Elisabeth Moss plays a rock star somewhere at the crossroads of Courtney Love and Lydia Lunch in Alex Ross Perry's Her Smell, and she's pretty brilliant in the role of a celebrity going completely off the rails, doing her own songs (legit!) and everything. The first half of the movie is rightly chaotic, even frenetic, capturing the drug haze, the anger, the insanity of being backstage (and on stage) with her as she throws everyone off the edge of her world. It's a full meal, and I when I looked at the time near the end of this section, I thought for sure the movie was almost over. In other words, it's tiring in the same way the character is to the people in her life. The second half of the film, post-breakdown, has, in comparison, a shocking stillness. Scenes are allowed to play out, organic silences crop up, and the camera gets sit. It's a relief, but one that brings its own tension. Though Becky Something has realigned her priorities, the same anxieties that made her misbehave are a part of her, and we see them manifest in a new way. Whether that's a better or a worse way would be giving too much away. 1 year 7 months ago