[Thor Joachim Haga]

Just back from THE DRAMA. What an annoying waste of time. Not one scene rang true for me. Every character was either awkward or a tw@t. Like DREAM SCENARIO, the last film by Borgli & Aster, it’s got an interesting central premise, but is half-baked and ends up going nowhere. He must have said to composer Daniel Pemberton “just bring some flutes”. I need to steer clear of ANYTHING with the name Ari Aster on it, cos I’ve hated everything he’s done since laughing/rolling my eyes throughout HEREDITARY. Me and him just don’t mix.

I was not thrilled with THE DRAMA either, as I alluded to in an earlier post. But unlike you, I do like Borgli’s previous films.

Aster & Eggers are strange cases for me. Celebrated by many, and I can understand WHY it is so. I can see the quality in much of what they do. I just can’t connect to most of their films on a personal level; I find myself irritated or indifferent. I do like Aster’s MIDSOMMAR, which I’ve seen a couple of times and captures that WICKER MAN vibe pretty well. But that’s about it from him. Never understood the big deal about HEREDITARY, and found both BEAU IS AFRAID and EDDINGTON pretty awful. I like Eggers’ THE VVITCH and bits and pieces of NOSFERATU, but can’t stand THE LIGHTHOUSE and THE NORTHMAN. Yeah, I know. I’m the odd one out.