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Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)
One of the finest movies ever made
This is a minimalist film...so not surprisingly there isn't much to say about it. It is a great film with outstanding writing, direction, pacing and acting. There is no excess anywhere in this film. Every scene is memorable. It is incredible...made even more so when you investigate the credits and come to realize that it was the sole acting role for the large majority of the stars. The majority of these people never acted in another film, before or since. A few did act in other films, and a couple went on to be directors.
This movie is on my list of the top 10 films of all time.
Dark Light (2019)
You will regret watching this...
So horrifically terrible that words fail me.
But I'll try...
SPOILER ALERT!
Here you have a woman who believes that her life, and the life of her young daughter, are in imminent peril in a remote farmhouse...and she STAYS in the farmhouse! She buys multiple guns for protection...and they are never kept loaded! She is endlessly loading and reloading the guns...even when they have not been fired. She apparently has 2 copies of the exact same double-barreled shotgun, since 1 was confiscated by the police, that have an under barrel mount for a flashlight...a very uncommon combination (I've never seen this). She commonly fires 1 shot at the beings, and then runs away, she never takes a second shot. And 00 buckshot doesn't even slow down these creatures.
She knows that the beings live underground...but never goes down into the cellar until the end of the movie. When she pours the gasoline/kerosene all over the house she makes no effort to actually get it down into the cavern where the creatures live. The creatures have some kind of "tech" to keep people alive in pools of water, despite no educational system or method of procuring equipment - THEY ARE NOT "ALIENS"... they are an indigenous species.
The police suspect child abuse...AND DO NOTHING! When the mother escapes from the police...she returns home and takes a bath! The sheriff is alone in confronting a suspected murderer.
Use this movie for a drinking game...if you never want to get to the end. Otherwise it has no purpose for it's existence.