Saturday, December 1, 2012

Twixt



Twixt is probably Coppola's most complete film since Dracula. Youth Without Youth has higher peaks, but this film is more expertly modulated and felt, and extremely fun to watch. Also, like Romero's Survival of the Dead, it is refreshing to see these older American filmmakers more candidly and successfully use today's communication technologies (Skype here, in particular) than the majority of their younger contemporaries.

The dream sequences are indeed beautiful, as is the typically-spacially aware mise en scene that defines a great deal of Coppola's work. There's also something startlingly personal and emotional about the core tale of Kilmer's lost artist.





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