47/17
IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers quick previews of 12 films he’s featured at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, unusually erotic Misericordia
Plot
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee postwar Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are forever changed by a mysterious and wealthy client..
Mentioned in Close-Up: Why do we need the Venice Film Festival?
Laszlo Toth is also the name of the man who hammered Michelangelo’s Pietà statue..
This ambitious post-war American epic opens with a mesmerizing long sequence that is sure to linger beyond the 3:35 hour running time
(2024).
Blumberg’s music adds to that, so the theater would definitely be his perfect habitat
The 70mm format suits the setting while making the film visually stunning with daring camera work and stunning photography.
The script brings interesting characters – although they are secondary purely cosmetic – valorized by the great performances of Brody and Pearce
The problem here is in the last hour, as the writers decided to throw in unexplored subplots that would prevent the film from getting a proper ending, thus leaving a bitter sense of incompleteness and preventing this monumental project from achieving what it was intended to do.