Robert Darke
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Saint Maud (2020) Review: Written at time of UK release
It has been a brutal few weeks for cinema, to put it lightly. Frankly, it's been a brutal few years, encroaching on a brutal decade or two, all culminating in these brutal few weeks. Tenet's stateside bomb may make Warner Bros. wish they had a special agent they could send back through time to halt its release, but alas. Nolan's sci-fi riff on Bond has meant that the ultimate British special agent has gone off-grid until 2021, leaving cinemas in literal shutdown levels of turmoil. What a treat, then, in amongst all the chaos to be provided with a diabolical triumph like Saint Maud. Throughout its runtime (clocking in at a brisk 85-minutes, cause for celebration itself) I was able to forget entirely about the precarious knife edge the cinematic experience is dangling on, to forget about the rampant disease sending the world into a seemingly unending downward spiral (a solitary cough from a fellow cinema goer across the room tugged me briefly back to reality, but I was soon re-engrossed), to forget, basically, about all the shit and instead focus on an absolute corker of a debut feature.
By Robert Darke3 years ago in Geeks