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Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018)
An animated heist movie in a cubist/pop art style. It's about a therapist that uses art to treat his patients who is suffering nightmares based on famous paintings. His patients all happen to be highly skilled thieves, so together, they decide to steal the paintings that are haunting him. It's visually very inventive and unique, but plot wise it's quite poor. One of those movies with a unique visual style and an interesting idea, but without the story telling to back it up. It probably would have been better as a 30 minute short. I would compare it to the unique feats that can only be accomplished in animation that Satoshi Kon movies have, but his movies are far more engaging. Recommended for hardcore animation fans though.
The Assassin (2015)
A Taiwanese wuxia movie by Hou Hsiao-hsien, most famous for directing A City of Sadness. This was billed as extremely beautiful, like a Wong Kar-wai movie. Instead it's a tedious bore. Seemingly plotless, meandering, dull, and not all that beautiful either. I considered turning it off after 30 minutes but foolishly stuck with it until the end. There's almost no action and very little wuxia wire-fu. Taiwanese movies have a reputation of being very different than Hong Kong and Chinese mainland movies: critics love them and audiences find them unbearably boring. This one is no different.
An animated heist movie in a cubist/pop art style. It's about a therapist that uses art to treat his patients who is suffering nightmares based on famous paintings. His patients all happen to be highly skilled thieves, so together, they decide to steal the paintings that are haunting him. It's visually very inventive and unique, but plot wise it's quite poor. One of those movies with a unique visual style and an interesting idea, but without the story telling to back it up. It probably would have been better as a 30 minute short. I would compare it to the unique feats that can only be accomplished in animation that Satoshi Kon movies have, but his movies are far more engaging. Recommended for hardcore animation fans though.
The Assassin (2015)
A Taiwanese wuxia movie by Hou Hsiao-hsien, most famous for directing A City of Sadness. This was billed as extremely beautiful, like a Wong Kar-wai movie. Instead it's a tedious bore. Seemingly plotless, meandering, dull, and not all that beautiful either. I considered turning it off after 30 minutes but foolishly stuck with it until the end. There's almost no action and very little wuxia wire-fu. Taiwanese movies have a reputation of being very different than Hong Kong and Chinese mainland movies: critics love them and audiences find them unbearably boring. This one is no different.