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58 San Diego Reader March 30, 2017


MOVIES


of hand to peel back layers of movie star celebrity armor simply by reassigning it to another character, in this case client Kyra. The result is a broodingly erotic, at times hard to fathom, but always elegantly filmed portrait of modern alienation. Throw in a dash of unexpected humor and some rightly spectral — at times, outright ingenious — special effects, and the time flies by faster than the spirited CG ectoplasm. 2016. — S.M. ★★★ (AMC LA JOLLA; AMC MISSION VALLEY; ANGELIKA FILM CENTER)


Raw — Rush week at Veterinary School should be a bastion of humane deportment, not a time when the forecast calls for it to rain horse blood or students to dine on raw rabbit kidney chased by a shot of hooch. Garance Marillier stars as the vegan vet student who during the course of the hazing decides it’s time to trade in the garden for a slaughterhouse and get back on the cow. Before long she’s dining on the arm. Reports that Toronto film festival attendees couldn’t keep their popcorn down or that ambulances were called to the scene because a couple of audience members fainted should only help to put butts in seats. The sly splashes of nuance and character shading that go into Marillier’s superbly functional performance can’t help but be pushed to the background in favor of mounting gore effects. Still, I was never bored by director Julia Ducournau’s stylish debut. 2016. — S.M. ★★★ (LANDMARK KEN)


The Sense of an Ending — Director Ritesh Batra’s adaptation of Julian Barnes’s my-theme-is-memory novel serves as a grand showcase for star Jim Broadbent as a sour old soul who is ever so gently forced to reckon with his past, and a smaller showcase for Charlotte Rampling as the long-ago lover who has very little interest in helping our hero muddle through his mild ordeal. Throughout, there is the feeling that a story that was once as sharp, doomful, and merciless as a bathtub razor blade has been blunted somewhat to allow for both mercy and hope. Perhaps this is just the result of Batra’s artful refusal to turn even direct confrontations into explicit arguments, or his considered shifts between past


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line. The seemingly harmless-looking person next to you unexpectedly launches into an unhinged stream of consciousness monologue that s/he hopes will pass for conversation. Such is the life of Wilson (Woody Harrelson), the latest of Daniel Clowes’s pen-and-ink creations to make the leap to the big screen. Wound tighter than a Swiss cuckoo clock, Wilson tracks down his ex-wife (the radiantly unhinged Laura Dern), and together they hit the road in search of Claire (Isabella Amara), the teenager they years ago put up for adoption. As the only character who shows any sign of maturation during the course of the picture, the kid expresses no interest in babysitting healthy adult strangers just because they happen to be her parents. Solipsistic cinema doesn’t get much funnier. Craig Johnson directs. 2017. — S.M. ★★★ (IN WIDE RELEASE)


and present. Or perhaps it’s because it’s almost unbearable to think that the sins of our youth can reverberate down through the decades, wreaking havoc on others without our ever knowing. With Harriet Walter as Broadbent’s splendid, unbullshittable ex-wife. 2017. — M.L. ★★ (ANGELIKA FILM CENTER; LOT; LANDMARK HILLCREST)


Staying Vertical — Writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s tale of a filmmaker looking for inspiration while raising a child. In French with English subtitles. Review forthcoming at sandiegoreader. com. 2016 (DIGITAL GYM)


Trainspotting 2 — Unless the entire cast suddenly found it hard to make their mortgage payments, file this one under “unnecessary sequels.” The passage of 23 years finds Begbie (Robert Carlyle) on the lam, Spud (Ewen Bremner) a suicidal junkie, and Simon (Jonny Lee Miller) managing a questionable extortion ring — when he’s not tending bar and snorting coke. The brains of the organization (Ewan MacGregor) is still running, only this time it’s at a health club. The opening gag involving a stalled treadmill flashes a warning sign that a lightweight comedy reunion lies ahead. As a courtesy to its forerunner, screenwriter John


Hodge works in a few gross-out jokes. The least offensive crudity involves a sparkling porcelain commode, a reverse reference to the original’s most memorable moment. Director Danny Boyle (Millions, Slumdog Millionaire) is simply too nice a guy to work against his minions. Following closely in the footsteps of its predecessor, T2 is the second sweetest film ever made about a caboodle of heroin addicts. 2017 — S.M. ★ (ARCLIGHT)


Wilson — It’s happened to all of us at some point, whether riding on a bus, seated in a waiting room, or standing in


The Zookeeper’s Wife — Dramatization of the efforts by real-life Warsaw zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski to smuggle and shelter Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It’s easy to see the story’s appeal: a loving couple (Johan Heldenbergh and a radiantly glamorous Jessica Chastain), struggling to preserve their life’s work but still risking everything to do what’s right, comforting the oppressed even as they have to make nice to the oppressors. (After their zoo is shut down, they turn the grounds into a pig farm to feed German soldiers.) Chief among those oppressors is Daniel Brühl as a Berlin zookeeper turned Nazi officer, a former colleague who enlists Chastain to aid him in his project of beastly eugenics, and maybe some other stuff, too. Brühl is the right man for what could have been a great job, easily conveying the character’s vacillations between professional esteem and growing personal desire, between courtly seduction and the naked assertion of will, between basic decency and the gradual corruption of same. But the film fails him, spending too much time documenting the degradation of the Warsaw ghetto and the goodness of the Zabinskis and their refuge, and not enough on the clash of ideologies and personalities that could have made the story hum. Again and again, the fuse is lit and then fizzles. Eventually, bewildered disinterest sets in. Directed by Niki Caro. — M.L. ★ (ANGELIKA CARMEL MOUNTAIN, LANDMARK HILLCREST)


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