BBCNEWS The Film Review November 6, 2021 23:54:00
No, but seriously, you should do something else. just for variety. i like playing cards. that is what he does. i love the way that shotjust closes in very, very slowly on its character. now, this is produced by martin scorsese, for whom, obviously, schrader wrote taxi driver. if you're a schrader fan, this is the riffs from american gigolo and light sleeper. he essentially makes a version of the same film over and over again — the lonely man who is troubled by his past, the man resting with guilt, and there are flashbacks to horrors in the past. he likes to keep everything completely contact...
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