[Gloin the Dark]

Yeah, I’m not planning to watch that one.

I think I saw Serra’s name in the opening credits of Magellan, actually.

A funny thing about Diaz is that, while his films are usually described as “slow cinema”, the ones I know are not generally all that slow (by comparison with the likes of Béla Tarr or Apichatpong Weerasethakul, say); it’s more that they’re very long. In this respect, Magellan is maybe the first of his films that I’ve seen that really belongs in the “slow” category – a montage of long-held, immaculately composed and lit shots, with most of the human activity kept at a certain distance both visually, aurally and dramatically.

It’s been a great year for visually gobsmacking films!