In the Kommune, she becomes friendly with Rainer Langhans. Obermaier enjoyed sexual freedom at the legendary Kommune 1 in Berlin after being with the krautrock band Bröselpilze. It of course leads to the usual hubris and downfall, but along the way Coppola constructs some sharp social satire amidst its curious archiving of mid-00s celeb culture, bolstered by surprisingly outsized comic performances from the likes of Emma Watson and her co-stars, all perfect parodies of rich vapidity.For the actual biography, see Uschi Obermaier. The adolescent restlessness of The Virgin Suicides and even Marie Antoinette are still visible in the sparkling surface and vacuous valley people of The Bling Ring.Ī crime drama inspired by a true story, the film follows the case of a young fashion fan named Marc, whose curiosity and attraction to wealth and fame leads him to becoming the accomplice of his classmates Rebecca and Nicki, who find the LA homes of celebrities who are away on holiday, and taking advantage of their lacking security to rob them. Sofia Coppola’s career as a director has been one that’s been as concerned with opulence and the idleness of the wealthy as frequently as it has been about various forms of ennui.
ISRAEL BROUSSARD as Marc EMMA WATSON as Nicki TAISSA FARMIGA as Sam KATIE CHANG as Rebecca CLAIRE JULIEN as Chloe in The Bling Ring. Somehow The Card Counter slipped under everyone’s radars last year, it’s time to correct that if you can. Schrader, as always engaging with his love of Bresson, creates an even more miserable existential crisis than his last film, the astounding First Reformed. Interrogating the complicity of troops in Abu Ghraib, its study of the emotional fallout on those responsible seeps into the film’s bleak depiction of poker, far removed from the bravado and glitz of the usual cinematic depiction of casinos. (Universal)Īfter milling around between stolid blockbuster franchises, Oscar Isaac finally gets a part worth sinking his teeth into in Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, in what might be his best role since the Coen Brothers's Inside Llewyn Davis.Īs the symbolically named William Tell, Isaac’s character brings burdens of the past into the present moment, in what might be one of the starkest and most cutting films about American war crimes in recent memory. Tye Sheridan as Cirk and Oscar Isaac as William Tell and Tiffany Haddish as La Linda in The Card Counter. The Card Counter (2021) - NOW with a Sky Cinema Membership (pick of the week) Please note that a subscription may be required to watch. Scream, the fifth instalment of the franchise of the same name, pokes fun at the trend of the legacy sequel, in the grand tradition of its forebears, each meta horror film lampooning films of the era in which they were made. The much flashier The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson, similarly needles at a different mindset, material greed as promoted by celebrity culture, and what it inspires in people who covet that fame. Reflecting on the rage and guilt of a lonely man but also using that as a route into deep-seated American pathologies around the War on Terror, it's an astonishing film in its scathing political commentary. Chief among these picks is The Card Counter, an Oscar Isaac-led character study from Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver, director of First Reformed). Wondering what to watch? Between card sharks, slashers and robbers, this week’s streaming highlights run a criminal gauntlet, to varying levels of seriousness.
What to watch: Scream, The Card Counter and The Bling Ring are all new to streaming this weekend.
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