Director: Michel Gondry Rating: 10/10 I love the recent Michel Gondry movies because they have mostly to do with the very primal urge to create and the creative process itself. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party gave insight to comedy and stage performance while documenting the organizing of a spontaneous event, and The Science of Sleep highlighted how having a strong…
The emotional and psychological state of an artist can be a very fragile thing. For a professional, their livelihood depends on opening themselves up for everyone to watch and examine. The work is often thankless and stress runs rampant during the rehearsal period. Black Swan, the latest feature from director Darren Aronofsky, is a portrait…
I considered many possible introductions to this review of Splice. I thought about exploring how the creative process somehow prevents us from achieving an ideal result because of unexpected roadblocks; you have to work around them, but there’s no way to avoid them and the project suffers. I thought about exspousing the glories of a…