Due to some poor planning, Under the Skin is the only homework I've done for the tourney this year. While I'm glad I watched it, Children of Men still has my vote.
Erin Teachman (Los Angeles) - 2 weeks ago
I am so pleased to see that Jonathan Glazer's beautifully unsettling Under the Skin made this tournament, some of the images in that film haunt me still, but Children of Men, which is a novel that I read admired before Cuaron so brilliantly brought it to the screen, is so utterly of this moment of crisis, that it doesn't feel like an almost 19 year old film at all, it feels living and present and urgent in a way that Glazer's coldly analytical film does not. Both are brilliant, but it has to be Children of Men for me.
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Due to some poor planning, Under the Skin is the only homework I've done for the tourney this year. While I'm glad I watched it, Children of Men still has my vote.
I am so pleased to see that Jonathan Glazer's beautifully unsettling Under the Skin made this tournament, some of the images in that film haunt me still, but Children of Men, which is a novel that I read admired before Cuaron so brilliantly brought it to the screen, is so utterly of this moment of crisis, that it doesn't feel like an almost 19 year old film at all, it feels living and present and urgent in a way that Glazer's coldly analytical film does not. Both are brilliant, but it has to be Children of Men for me.