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So this is probably a common trend at most film festivals, but I don't think I have ever had such fun discussions following screenings of certain films, because there were a plethora of polarizing films at this year's Fantastic Fest.
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The approach to making a figure like Oral Roberts so down - to - earth, to make a topic like heresy so emotional and to make a place like church so relationally rich, makes the subject at the core of the film — the existence of hell — so opposite of what it has become for Christians: polarizing.
February and High - Rise proved to be the most polarizing out of all of the films at the festival, with half of the attendees either loving or hating them with no middle ground (I loved February and absolutely loathed High - Rise).
Other polarizing films included Darling, Bone Tomahawk, Follow and Demon (which won best horror feature at the festival to many people's surprise
Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...
The film has been drawing a polarizing response at Sundance, with many noting the disappointing ending.
It is Lynch's most mature work, my favorite of his films, and at the least, the most conversation - inspiring and polarizing film of the year.
«The Handmaiden (Agassi)» (Park Chan - wook) Chan - Wool's first feature film since the polarizing «Stoker» was a crowd favorite at Cannes and has been crisscrossing the world from festival to festival since.
A tough - talking priest (Bryan F. O'Byrne) lambastes him at one point for a choice that Frankie has concerning a paralyzed friend, but because the film feints and dodges at moments of real crisis, the fact that a lot of Catholics were polarized by their clergy this last election over issues of stem - cell research is never broached.
We talked about what it was like to get the offer to direct Star Wars, how he arrived at some of the themes of the film, and how he's dealing with the polarized reaction from fans.
Perhaps the most widely polarizing film in recent memory, Kill List, a kitchen - sink drama meets surreal cult horror hybrid, confirmed at least one thing for everyone who walked out of the theater, both awed and annoyed alike: Whether for good or for ill, Ben Wheatley is one of Britain's most interesting contemporary filmmakers.
At moments, it feels like Tarantino is really trying to say something about the bizarre, angry jigsaw of people who help make this country the polarized mess it remains today, but once the film shifts into an expected cacophony of violence, whatever that might be slips through his gore - stained fingers.
Like most David Lynch films, Wild at Heart will polarize viewers, though I imagine it taxes the patience of even the most dedicated fans.
Maybe it's this careful balancing act, this embrace of diametrically opposed visions of war, at a time when political passions were so polarized, that led to the film's quick drift into obscurity.
Pedigree: Von Trier has been terrorizing the festival circuit for years with polarizing films like Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark, and Dogville, and his enfant terrible status was reaffirmed at the infamous press conference for Melancholia, where his remarks on Nazis got him banned from Cannes.
In the recently completed Sleeping Beauty, her most controversial film to date (which polarized audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival), her character works in a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the better of her.
Then there are two video artists, Price and Fowler, who have contributed, respectively, a short film dealing with a deadly 1979 fire at a Woolworth store (mixed in with footage of the Shangri Las) and a feature - length film about the polarizing Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing.