The two movies I saw last night, The Lighthouse and Anora, were two of the best movies I’ve seen in recent memory.
I absolutely adore The Lighthouse. I love how it portrays madness in the face of such an isolated setting. And the movie’s aesthetic is so brilliant in that it gives it an eerily feeling that never lets up. It may legitimately be in my top 10 favorite movies of all time now.
As for Anora, that was interesting because the first 40 minutes were boring as hell. It was like one prolonged sex scene with not much going on. But then sometime after the first 40 minutes, it becomes this Three Stooges-esque heist movie and it becomes for like a straight hour my favorite comedy of the year. And then by the end of the film, in the last 40 or so minutes, you really feel sorry for Ani, the prostitute character. I haven’t felt this bad for a character in a movie in a while.
I would definitely say the last 2/3rds of Anora make the first third worth getting through. As for the movie as a whole, I’d probably put it only behind Exhibiting Forgiveness and Conclave as the best movie I’ve seen this year that came out this year.