Mandy

Panos Cosmatos encontrou finalmente um sujeito adequado para as suas experiências peculiares e visualmente extravagantes de LSD - um pesadelo de lenhador sobre drogas más com orgias brutalmente sangrentas, motosserras e motociclistas do inferno. Apenas passagens alucinógenas e a música psicadélica demoníaca de Jóhann Jóhannsson salvam a primeira metade e o seu ritmo extremamente descontraído, mas depois é lançada uma tal ciclone de thrash metal sectário que é difícil não se sucumbir, embora a resistência à violência extrema seja um pré-requisito. O desempenho insano de Nicolas Cage é da categoria de guilty pleasure drogado. Mandy é um filme cruel e vicioso, mas é distinto e original em igual medida. (30/06/2018)

A violência alucinógena de grindhouse revenge com um coração amoroso que é consumido pela escuridão cósmica. Surpreendentemente cativante e conceptualmente coerente para os filtros baratos e o orçamento de filme B. E agradavelmente refrescante para o habitual clima de festival. Cena de highlight é — obviamente — Cage a beber em calções brancos e uma t-shirt laranja com um tigre. [Cannes] (14/05/2018)

Of course… who else should star in this movie if not Nicolas Cage. He is currently the only Hollywood actor who turned acting into a completely extravagant experience. If he is in pain, physically or mentally, you’ll simply feel it too. And since he keeps appearing in films which are outside the norm, you can count on Nicolas Cage being in complete mental and physical pain. When it came to the execution of the movie, I was quite upset. The first half was mostly for show. The director played with purple filters and half the time I couldn’t even see what was going on in a scene. But the important thing is that it is glamorous. The second half of the movie was hardcore, though. That’s actually when the dark side of Nicolas comes to life together in a surreal ride full of such shit you won’t believe your eyes. An unbelievable crazy trip. Again, one of those films that try to shock you creatively and it is pretty successful in doing that. (03/11/2018)

It's like Jodorowsky fathered a child with Panos's daddy George. Definitely a distinctive film, visually impressive, from a man with a vision. Interesting color palette, functionally applied filters, but at least in the first half (which many here criticize, but I liked it better) brimming with atmosphere and remarkable visual ideas, all underscored by a unique soundtrack. The second half is grindhouse carnage, uncompromisingly straightforward and simple, but still retaining a visual identity. The half-deranged Cage is a casting triumph, Riseborough has something magical in his intriguing, deadpan face, and Roache is a charismatic villain but also a woefully comic figure, and this is not an easy thing to grasp as an actor. Mandy is a remarkable film, it's not for everyone, certainly not for the mainstream, but it beats with the heart of a filmmaker who’s not bland and loves to tell simple stories through atmospheric imagery. PS: I enjoyed it even more on a second screening. This film is so out of step with 99% of filmmaking, and yet it's not stupid; hats off to it. I'm not surprised by the worldwide enthusiastic critical response (currently 8.2 on Metacritic) and I’m happy for Cosmatos from the bottom of my heart. (16/09/2018)

Oh, no, not this. Again, one of those films that critics praise to the skies but is literally painful for the average viewer. Nicolas Cage is a dead actor for me, this guy won't be in a good movie anymore and he certainly can't act. The strange pink and red filter covering the financial shortcomings was annoying, absolutely nothing happens for an hour, and if by some miracle you are still awake after an hour and not completely disgusted, you won't find much satisfaction in the second one either. I suffered, I went crazy, this is not for me. 35% (15/09/2018)