Monday, October 16, 2023

Review of Liquorice Pizza

An odd and rather unsatisfying film...I'm sure when they pitched it the word "quirky" was used, but it's as much shapeless as quirky. At first I liked the fact that is was not only set in the early 1970s but seemed to have been made then too - the colours, the shots, the camera resolution... And some of it is nicely observed, with good close-ups and dynamics between the characters. But the narrative becomes a set of increasingly implausible vignettes and incidents that don't seem to relate to each other.

Quite fed up by the end, it seemed overlong and not so interesting.

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