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Unbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationships
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Unbreakable, Part I: Characters and relationships

Av Dag Sødtholt

Our in-depth look at M. Night Shyamalan's early films continues with Unbreakable: perhaps the only mainstream Hollywood formalist film, a mass-market movie approached with an unrelenting European art film sensibility.

Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspective

Louder Than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s play on perspective

Av Dag Sødtholt

As so often in films, Louder Than Bombs is not a dissertation, but a meditation on its themes and motifs. Seen in isolation, words and deeds may seem unexceptional – it is as a whole that Joachim Trier film takes flight.

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan C: The love of gravity

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan C: The love of gravity

Av Dag Sødtholt

We are unable to let go of Interstellar...! This third article explores the film as an experience and its music, editing and consistency. And perhaps there are more plans in the film than Plan A and B?

M. Night Shyamalan’s Old: Twelve against time
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M. Night Shyamalan’s Old: Twelve against time

Av Dag Sødtholt

Although the framing story and twist are surprisingly prosaic, for long stretches of the main body M. Night Shyamalan's Old conjures up a combination of tension, absurdity and chaos that few other films have achieved.

Lady in the Water, Part I: A reappraisal
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Lady in the Water, Part I: A reappraisal [2]

Av Dag Sødtholt

It was one of the most hated films of the 2000s, but with the trauma now at a distance, it is time to appreciate M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water for its very real qualities. [2]

The Happening, Part III: Do you think it could be plants?
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The Happening, Part III: Do you think it could be plants?

Av Dag Sødtholt

A Shyamalan enthusiast is struggling mightily to come to terms with the conundrum of The Happening, a split identity film that swings wildly between excellence, rampant quirkiness and unchecked hysteria.

Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?

Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017) Part I: What does it all mean?

Av Dag Sødtholt

Zeitgeist is replaced by timelessness, chamber music by a symphony. The systematically unpredictable Thelma is Joachim Trier and his team's most sonorous, lyrical and adventurous film.

The Village, part II: A tapestry of characters

The Village, part II: A tapestry of characters

Av Dag Sødtholt

After a general evaluation of this M. Night Shyamalan tour de force, the large cast of characters and their relationships are examined, with a special emphasis on subtext and how that is expressed through mise-en-scène.

The Deep Darkies of the Soul: M. Night Shyamalan organically swings in The Visit
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The Deep Darkies of the Soul: M. Night Shyamalan organically swings in The Visit

Av Dag Sødtholt

"You have to laugh to keep the deep darkies in a cave." Shyamalan's most audacious film presents a bizarre mix of knowing irony, youthful naivete, mental illness, comedic horror and tonal shifts, yet everything seamlessly works.

Desperate connections: An analysis of Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (2015)

Desperate connections: An analysis of Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick (2015)

Av Dag Sødtholt

"Homesick primarily plays on the unspoken. Dialogues are marked by pauses and silent tensions between characters. Most films increase their pace towards a climax, but in Sewitsky the pauses just grow longer and more pregnant."

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan A: Caressing across the galaxies

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan A: Caressing across the galaxies

Av Dag Sødtholt

This is the first of three analytical articles on Christopher Nolan's science fiction epic Interstellar. A transcendent cinematic work, whose construction and staging hold a plethora of deeply embedded patterns and structures.

The Village, part I: Motifs and story arc

The Village, part I: Motifs and story arc

Av Dag Sødtholt

Before The Visit came M. Night Shyamalan's early masterpiece The Village. Mismarketed and misunderstood as a horror movie, it has gained a following as a mood piece of pastoral beauty, intense emotion and stylised lyricism.

After Earth, Part I: Much better than you think

After Earth, Part I: Much better than you think

Av Dag Sødtholt

With the artistic, commercial and critical success of his two latest films, it is about time to soberly unearth the very real qualities of M. Night Shyamalan's disproportionally maligned middle period.

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan B: A modern myth

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, plan B: A modern myth

Av Dag Sødtholt

This second of three analytical articles on Interstellar explores themes: identity, religion, lies and truth, inflexible worldviews, and the difference between the imagined and the experienced.

Signs, Part III: Dreams, demons and birds

Signs, Part III: Dreams, demons and birds

Av Dag Sødtholt

Signs offers rich allegorical subtexts of dreams, magic and the aliens as metaphors for the characters' inner demons. We also chart references to The Birds, and analyse the masterful cellar sequence and the film's ending.

The Sixth Sense, Part I: Stature and Style
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The Sixth Sense, Part I: Stature and Style [1]

Av Dag Sødtholt

A stunning piece of high-precision filmmaking, formally inventive, thematically intelligent, emotionally gripping, a momentous commercial success, an almost perfect film. [1]

The luxury of awfulness: Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Myself
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The luxury of awfulness: Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Myself

Av Tommaso Tocci

Cannes 2022: It feels so apt that Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, on stage in a crisp suit at Cannes and wresting the spotlight away from Thierry Fremaux himself, called his feature debut Sick of Myself a ”toast to the assholes”.

Unbreakable, Part III: Visual style

Unbreakable, Part III: Visual style

Av Dag Sødtholt

M. Night Shyamalan's visual style consists of a series of recurring formal devices. Watching Unbreakable feels like participating in a ritual where these devices are applied and reapplied, in new variations and combinations.

Lady in the Water, Part II: Self-reflexivity and visual stylisation
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Lady in the Water, Part II: Self-reflexivity and visual stylisation [4]

Av Dag Sødtholt

A return to this severely under-appreciated film, for its discussion of storytelling, interpretation, film criticism, artificiality, stylisation, interconnectedness – and whether stories can become real.  [4]

Interlinked: Adapting the Cyberpunk World of Blade Runner
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Interlinked: Adapting the Cyberpunk World of Blade Runner

Av Isak Enger

What happens as the cyberpunk elements in Blade Runner are adapted and changed in Blade Runner 2049, brought into both the fictional future Los Angeles, as well as the cultural context of 2017?

Unbreakable, Part II: Motifs and colour
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Unbreakable, Part II: Motifs and colour

Av Dag Sødtholt

M. Night Shyamalan's enigmatic superhero thriller is a film where everything seems to be connected to everything else. We look at various motifs and colour codings that move in intricate and sometimes very strange patterns.

Split, Part III: Meeting of multiple minds

Split, Part III: Meeting of multiple minds

Av Dag Sødtholt

The cat-and-mouse sessions between psychiatrist and patient form a thrilling acting laboratory, where M. Night Shyamalan's fundamentally static set-ups are done with rigour and discreet invention. Bonus: film references.

The Village Part III: Love, murder and monsters

The Village Part III: Love, murder and monsters

Av Dag Sødtholt

Whispered echoes, nightmare logic, high melodrama, relentlessly ingenious staging – this visual analysis of M. Night Shyamalan's pastoral masterpiece preserves the film's own gestures, often rearranged in surprising combinations.

The Sixth Sense, Part III: Motifs and a Funeral
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The Sixth Sense, Part III: Motifs and a Funeral

Av Dag Sødtholt

We conclude our in-depth analysis of M. Night Shyamalan's masterpiece with a close look at motifs and structural aspects, concluding with a shot-by-shot commentary on the post-funeral sequence.

Céline Sciamma’s Petite maman: Portals to the past
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Céline Sciamma’s Petite maman: Portals to the past

Av Dag Sødtholt

Sciamma's fifth feature film is immediately striking in its gentleness as well as emotional and visual beauty, but what lies beneath the apparent simplicity are rich layers of structural echoes and quiet metaphors.

Focus of faith: Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World
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Focus of faith: Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World

Av Dag Sødtholt

A film of wanderings and street-level epiphanies, a romantic comedy ending in stripped-down tragedy, a portrait of the future artist as a young woman.

The impeachment of Elio: Fruits and echoes in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name
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The impeachment of Elio: Fruits and echoes in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name

Av Dag Sødtholt

This third and final piece will round up favourite moments, film-formal devices, and a large number of motifs, staging ideas, echoes and other structural properties that enrich this well-thought-out film.

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit, Part II: Shit happens, but with precision
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M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit, Part II: Shit happens, but with precision

Av Dag Sødtholt

Although not strictly a found footage film itself, The Visit is commenting upon, and at times even satirising, the ingredients of the genre. Bonus: references to other Shyamalan films.

Maria by Callas by Volf
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Maria by Callas by Volf

Av Joakim Parslow

Tom Volf's film Maria by Callas is by no means the first documentary about Maria Callas, by many considered to be the twentieth century’s greatest opera singer. Why, then, make yet another film?

Signs, Part I: Delightful entertainment, with meaning

Signs, Part I: Delightful entertainment, with meaning [1]

Av Dag Sødtholt

M. Night Shyamalan has created a Signs fiction film about alien invasion, with powerful horror set pieces and comedic touches. An analysis of its dreamlike opening sequence peels away complex layers of motifs and echoes. [1]

The Sixth Sense, Part II: Beginnings and Ends
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The Sixth Sense, Part II: Beginnings and Ends [1]

Av Dag Sødtholt

A visual analysis of key scenes of M. Night Shyamalan's masterpiece and his virtuoso use of motifs, staging and interconnectedness to achieve coherence and closure. [1]

Split, Part II: The fine print of M. Night Shyamalan

Split, Part II: The fine print of M. Night Shyamalan

Av Dag Sødtholt

The apparent simplicity of Split conceals a surprising amount of ideas, refinement and subtlety. This is a moment-by-moment analysis of the brilliant abduction scene, plus a hard look at isolation, corridors, animals and flowers.

(Photo: Matti Aikio)

The Cinema and the Gallery – When worlds collide?

Av P. Stuart Robinson

A strange case of parallel universes explored through Declan Clarke’s Geist Trilogy from 2015. Are you ready for film at its absolute weirdest, flouting all cinematic conventions and ‘hung out’ in a gallery?

Split, Part IV: Creativity in cramped quarters
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Split, Part IV: Creativity in cramped quarters

Av Dag Sødtholt

A final look at M. Night Shyamalan's Split, this time its formal approach with a special emphasis on his inventive use of point-of-view shots, stealthy camera movements, overhead and underhead shots, and many other subtleties.

Realism – Search for Truth or Road to Nowhere?

Realism – Search for Truth or Road to Nowhere?

Av P. Stuart Robinson

«What gives a work the kind of mark of authenticity that can prompt the sophisticated cinephile to nod with approval and self-satisfaction at being able to appreciate such a difficult but worthwhile film?»

Signs, Part II: Motifs and horror shows

Signs, Part II: Motifs and horror shows

Av Dag Sødtholt

M. Night Shyamalan is particularly adept at creating a set of hidden motifs that govern the film. We look at circles, water, doors, houses, the sky and how they operate in two brilliant horror set pieces.

My Sweet, Frigid Little Girl: Some Thoughts on Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan
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My Sweet, Frigid Little Girl: Some Thoughts on Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan [6]

Av Dag Sødtholt

Ruminations on sex, narcissism, mirrors, thematic reflections, melodrama and patterns in Black Swan. [6]

After Earth, Part II: Figure in a landscape

After Earth, Part II: Figure in a landscape

Av Dag Sødtholt

We look at three outstanding scenes in this better-than-you-think M. Night Shyamalan film, along with its pervasive motif of figures in a landscape, visual rhymes and many occasions of elegant staging.

The Happening, Part II: Goners with the wind
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The Happening, Part II: Goners with the wind

Av Dag Sødtholt

A guide to the many powerful suicide scenes, including the brilliant, icily electrifying opening where normality turns into nightmare. Plus motifs, visual ideas and references to earlier Shyamalan works.

Blade Runner 2049: Cells interlinked (English version)

Blade Runner 2049: Cells interlinked (English version)

Av Dag Sødtholt

Dette er en engelskspråklig utgave av den norske artikkelen av samme navn, supplert med et nytt vedlegg med innspill fra diverse Facebook-diskusjoner om Denis Villeneuves film.

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