Directed by Ermanno Olmi In Il Posto a Timothee Chalamet-looking young man, Domenico, reluctantly joins the working force. It's a daunting and certainly droll process that introduces him to Antonietta, another applicant for the large, unnamed and unimportant corporation. It doesn't matter what they do as long as they are paid to do it. Domenico's father … Continue reading Il Posto (1961)
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Shadow of a Doubt, like Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), is about the deconstruction of myth, to some extent. They are similar films, following one character's increasing paranoia that someone they love is a monster. In the former, Joan Fontaine begins to worry that the man she married, played by Cary Grant, has … Continue reading Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
