CINEMA FOR THE PEOPLE

If one were to pull out a theme from The Birds, it’s that of chaos.

The achievement of the directors is no simple feat. They have presented a collection of intimate interviews about a scene that perhaps will never again get such a careful treatment.

A meta sci-fi/giallo hybrid from the director of Drive sounds sick as hell on paper, which makes the ordeal of sitting through Her Private Hell all the more disappointing.

Maddie’s Secret achieves the emotional magic of melodramas: the viewer unknowingly finds themselves swept up in the heightened emotions at the story’s peak, with crushing emotional consequences