Something to keep in mind: there’s a difference between a movie being a whodunit and having whodunit elements. For example, IMDb categorizes Heart Eyes as a whodunit, but if you were looking to have a nice mystery along the lines of Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes, all the gory kills might not really be for you.
Since I’m pretty late to the game with this one, I doubt there’s much interest in my review, but I did find that I wanted to talk about this.
My initial instinct was to make this a joke and put on movies like Layer Cake, Duck Soup and Milk which just have foods in their titles, but that wouldn’t have been fun after one of them, so you get a real list.
At first I thought I might not be able to do this, because my choices wouldn’t be interesting enough, but then I still made the list and turns out that while some are pretty predictable, I did come up with some from the left field as well.
I couldn’t find an official English title for this, but if I had to give a translation, I wouldn’t really be sure what would be the best way to go, because the word ‘taito’ can have very different connotations. It could be ‘The Art of Screaming’ or ‘The Ability to Scream’, but the most precise would probably be ‘The Faculty to Scream’, but that might be a bit clumsy. I don’t know. Not my field, really.
First, I was way too young when I first saw Nekromantik. I don’t remember exactly when it was, but it must have been around when I was 13 and met this guy who had access to a weirdly huge variety of movies, considering it was 1990. Some he got through his parents, but I doubt even they would have let their kid see a movie like this that young. Then again, you never know.
I really don’t like the last of those options. That’s just a pretty forced aspect of the movie.
The sequel no-one asked for, but it’s actually pretty good.
Europe. The Old World. The home of Guy, Bergman, Denis, Fellini, Bresson, Akerman, Sciamma, Dreyer, Murnau, Varda… The origin of all those obscure art movies which that one friend of yours always claims to have seen. You know, those thoughtful black and white pieces of cinema, light on plot and heavy on character. Well, none of that shit here.
This is partly a reminder that not all auteurs are directors. I would argue Tom Cruise is an auteur. He makes movies that fit his personal brand and he has a strong vision of how to present himself on the screen. Sure, he has at times moved away from this, but everyone knows he has a very specific way of approaching the movies he stars in.