2016 at the Movies: I hadn’t seen this before

Isabelle Huppert in ELLE
Isabelle Huppert in ELLE

Here are some things that I hadn’t seen before in the movies:

  • Lead characters in Toni Erdmann and Elle that were completely sui generis.
  • A movie exposé, Under the Sun, built out of outtakes shot under the noses of the North Korean government handlers.
  • Tower, a documentary about a mass shooting that barely mentioned the shooter – and with a startlingly effective look.
  • The Greasy Strangler, a movie actually constructed as a cult movie for the midnight shows
  • The Korean period con artist movie The Handmaiden delivered some unforeseeable plot twists – and was gorgeous and erotic, too.
TOWER
TOWER

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