Back from watching Hurry Up Tomorrow with Jenna Ortega. Very impressed. Wrote this on letterboxd:
Very visual for a film about music... Unconventional also in other ways. Where most films are basically books with pictures, here the full possibilities of the medium are used to delve into the main character's mental breakdown. And as a viewer we are not given the comfort of distance, we are right in it.
I saw this film as a big fan of Jenna Ortega. I didn't really know The Weeknd, but he did very well.
Jenna went deep in this film and made it, fully understanding what this film required. Her character meets the main character when both their psyches are spiraling out of control. But is she the problem or the solution? Or something else?
This film is not about obsessive fans, no matter how much that's suggested (also in the aspect ratio?), it is about something else. And also there I think its treatment is unconventional.
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My ★★★★★ review of Hurry Up Tomorrow on Letterboxd boxd.it/9IIX2h
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Having a little look at other reviews... I'm not a film buff at all and in no way more likely to understand esoteric cinema, but how can so many people not get it? I mean even her character's name could be considered a spoiler.
And how come so many people mention things in their review that is in the short blurb description, but not mentioned in the actual film? I guess they make these to catch these people out...