Autumn is wrapped in melancholy. We haven’t put on our storms but we’ve already had a few fires. We’re watching a little more tv too. Criterion had a Scorsese thing going and we had just finished “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” when along comes the Apple documentary on him. Each episode is so jam packed we could only do one a day.
Jumping from the kid who seemed so real in “Alice” to the kid in Netflix’s “Adolescence” illustrates how times have changed. The series is fabulous until the very end where the dad tries to explain himself. Adolescence looked even more brilliant coming after “Black Rabbit” which had every reason to be good but instead felt empty. A big budget, big actors and directors (Jude Law, Jason Bateman, Laura Linney) and a dramatic thriller of a story but no soul. They manufactured an intense pace with quick cuts and twist while Adolescence got real with hardly any cuts.
Looking forward to this weekend’s “El Clásico.”
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