De Palma returns to what he does best
PASSION is likely to be appreciated more by those already familiar with De Palma's films and career trajectory and the very artificial, surreal style he employs. In PASSION, De Palma returns to the genre for he is most celebrated and concocts a tale of shallow, catty advertising execs that tips over into a hallucinatory nightmare. It's absurd, outrageous, and devilishly clever, a film that playfully examines the surveillance culture which we currently inhabit.
Passionate De Palma
This is an exquisite new Brian De Palma film. Passion is playful pure cinema, covering De Palma's common themes and visual styles (voyeurism, technology, obsession, manipulation, deception, guilt, beautiful femme fatale's, heightened performances, overt artificiality, deliberate tonal shifts & stylistic flourishes). Whilst the first half of the film plays as a seemingly straightforward corporate drama, replete with corporate backstabbing (with a brilliant, but frankly bonkers Pino Donaggio soft core score). All is not as it seems however, and the second half of the film takes on a completely different direction and moves into the realms of dreams within dreams and German expressionism with a trademark and quite wonderful split screen section involving Mallarmé's/Dubussy's 'Afternoon of the Faun' ballet linking the poem/ballet to a key character and murder of another which tricks you about its timeline. There are images and adverts of the ballet shown prior to this, and the...
Mesmerizing
This film is an excellent thriller/mystery from DePalma. Noomi Rapace and McAdams are amazing, and the third act is unbelievably well done. If you like thrillers, then watch "Passion".
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