The good: two films, similar in style. One French, the other from Argentina. First, They Came Back: a sort-of zombie pic, but minus the grunting, bloodthirsty undead with rotting flesh. A collective knot in the community's stomach begins when 13,000 of their recently dead citizens walk out of the cemetery and proceed to find their loved ones and resume their previous jobs. Throughout, an understated creepiness resides in this film. Similar in pacing, The Aura - by Fabian Bielinsky, who died at the age of only 47 after the film was edited - is a mesmerizing portrait of an epileptic taxidermist who dreams of pulling off the perfect heist. Beautifully shot, acted and edited, Aura has it's own sense of timing and resolve. The bad: Hard Candy. How could a film start out so brilliant and fall apart so rapidly? The first half is amazing (like Lost Highway or Art School Confidential), but once the "procedure" is done... it all goes down the drain, literally. The ugly: As a huge fan of Christopher Guest films, I was overjoyed when I first saw the trailer for For Your Consideration. I watched it over and over, laughing hysterically. I made friends watch it. I made friends go see it with me and, to my horror, it was awful. All the good laughs are capsulized in the trailer... it's all you need... just consider it a short film and never mind the feature.
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