I saw The Shape Of Water about a week ago. I really, really, liked it. If you’re a fan of Amelie and Delicatessan, then you will be into this shit. His best work I think.
It's funny you say that, because the director of those films is saying
Shape of Water ripped off a scene from Delicatessan.
Anyway, I liked
The Shape of Water quite a bit. It had a bit of that Jenuet vibe as you said, I wouldn't say it verged into plagiarism territory at all though.
I watched The Blackcoat's Daughter.
A slow burn Horror Film directed by Anthony Perkins' son.
I found it really engaging and tense until the completely bungled "ending".
It owes a lot to The Witch.
I was reminded of
The Witch stylistically while watching
Blackcoat's Daughter, but I think any similarity could be coincidental.
The Witch had it's premier at Sundance January 27, 2015.
Blackcoat's Daughter started filming February 2015 (not sure of the exact date). It was first screened at the Toronto festival September 2015, before The Witch had it's theatrical premier. It's possible Oz Perkins could have seen
The Witch at Sundance or another festival and been influenced by it, but I'm not certain.
Finally got round to watching Kurosawa's Throne of Blood the other day.
That's a top 5 Shakespeare film for me, probably top 10 film.
I think the over the top acting style is influenced by the style of stage acting in Japan. Kurosawa directs his actors that way often, but never more so than in his Shakespeare films.
I think it's good that the dialogue was translated into (presumably) modern Japanese. The structure and most of the scenes played out pretty much just as in the play, more so than
Ran compared to King Lear I think. Kind of funny to watch a film that was adapted from early 17th century English into modern Japanese then translated back into modern English by way of subtitles.
Throne of Blood and Polanski's
Macbeth are for me the pinnacles of Macbeth films. I don't like to compare them, because it's rather apples to oranges IMO. My feelings are that as great as
Throne of Blood is it can never be THE Macbeth film because it doesn't use Shakespeare's words. Polanski's
Macbeth works I think mostly because the acting and production design are more cinematic as opposed to theatrical.
How did you like the movie? Nothing happens. There is no direction or story.
I would say the story is of mostly the progression of their relationship and how his life changes in ways that it hadn't in years, in ways which his previous girlfriends/muses were unable to bring about.
The acting and the characterization is what carries the movie for me. It doesn't hurt that it looks and sounds fantastic.