REVIEW
A sleuth, a suspect and a curious courtship
During lockdown’s disconcerting drought of new film releases it felt like a lot of us began to spool backwards through our own cinematic lives. That might have involved rewatching personal comfort-blanket movies or making a conscious and structured effort to expand our film knowledge. Basically, popcorn-fuelled nights on the couch disguised as self-improvement.
Finding myself in a suddenly oppressive world of shrinking choices and increasing desperation, I dived headlong, and. I belatedly ticked off some key 1970s texts I’d never got round to seeing, including the notorious and Robert Altman’s gloriously shabby. I also took a punt on the newest of neo-noirs: the sunny, offbeat, a film that was barely released in 2020, is now what I automatically recommend to anyone who says they are looking for a movie that will truly surprise them.
