Paul Byrnes reflects on his decades in the dark and the decision to step back into the sunlight.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.As this is my last piece as a film critic for this newspaper, I am looking forward to some sunlight. I have spent much of the last 38 years in the dark. Some of my readers would agree. I can’t guess how many films I’ve seen, but certainly more than 10,000. For some people, reviewing movies is their dream job; others wonder how I could stand it. For me, it was like being Toto inI was 27 when I started writing about movies.
It doesn’t matter if the reader agrees with you. I’ll tell you a secret: even I don’t always agree with me. When I reread something, I see my younger self, struggling to work out my position on life, the universe and everything. I know I got it wrong many times. I didn’t like much of the output of the Coen brothers at first. They were too arch, too smarty-pants, too patronising of their own culture. Now I can’t get enough of films likeAnd to be clear, there is no such thing as a right view.
Gulpilil: “This one had me at the first shot. David Gulpilil…walks down a country road… Then we see why: he’s following an emu, which was obscured by his body. When the actor stops and turns back up the road, the emu does too. They move in step, as if in a duet. He just smiles, as if to say ‘of course we are’.”
Son of Saul: “One of the greatest films ever made. Just when it seemed that cinema was spent, incapable of reinvention, lost in trivia and meaningless sensory stimulation, Laszlo Nemes has revived it by tackling the hardest story anyone could tell, in a way that has never been done – and in his first film.”
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