ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?
(2022 dir. Elvis Mitchell) Date Seen: December 21 2022
741) NO BEARS
(2022 dir. Jafar Panahi) Date Seen: December 21 2022
740) HIGH SPIRITS
(1988 dir. Neil Jordan) Date Seen: December 21 2022
Maybe any movie Neil Jordan followed MONA LISA (1986) with was destined to look disappointing. I’d be tempted to call HIGH SPIRITS an elaborate train wreck if its weirdness weren’t so genuinely fascinating to behold. For instance; It has really charming almost silent film-quality optical & visual effects + the sets and art direction are theatrically eccentric. But then it also has things that are meant to be funny that are just shrill in the most bizarre ways (a weepy ghost played by a young Liam Neeson, a poltergeist sequence involving a jazzercise ghost, etc.). Overall a very audacious fantasy comedy that I wish worked in all the ways it was intended to.
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