Bunny Lake is Missing: Exploring the Intrigue and Suspense of Otto Preminger’s Classic Film

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Otto Preminger was a craftsman of cinema. His absolute control of the details and the impeccable staging always accompanied him. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) has, in effect, that trademark that made Preminger a master of the seventh art. Whether from the stand with his Anatomy of Murder (1959) or immersed in the dark world of addictions in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Preminger was always poignant when it came to telling his stories. Common stories that mutated until they became unusual chronicles.

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Infinity Pool (2023)

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Like father, like son, it works well here. Brandon Cronenberg not only became a film director like his father, the well-known David Cronenberg but has also been inclined to recreate the visually challenging and surreal universes that his father has accustomed us to. Infinity Pool is Brandon’s third feature film and with it, he confirms his directing style and his preferences when it comes to presenting his narrative. It is impossible not to refer to the cinema that we know of his father and the heap of sequences that he has bequeathed to the cinema. Each scene seems to be covered by a large shadow that eclipses Brandon’s hand and only lets us see Cronenberg.

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Knock at the Cabin (2023)

Rating: 2 out of 5.

In 1999 M. Night Shyamalan shook the world with his movie The Sixth Sense. Nor did the studios expect the then-young director’s film to perform the way it did in theaters. Revenues exceeded 600 million dollars and, in the VHS, and DVD rental market, it was requested by more than 80 million people. The psychological horror-thriller drama thrust the director into the spotlight and enshrined him in almost immediate cult status.

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