American Star (2024)
A relaxing holiday with a twist
4 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
A movie that lets you breathe.

Wonderful cinematography, not just because of Fuerteventura, every shot had deliberation and beauty.

A movie that takes the time, how very luxurious, how relaxing, how satisfying.

You wonder how it will turn out, there is tension underneath, and not everything is explained.

(why did Ryan sleep with her, why did he allow photographs, had he planned to kill her anyway).

I don't like French films or French acting, so Fanny Ardant and her role as it was written was a redundant nuisance, the only bad thing in a good movie.

The double twist at the end was not what I had expected, but also not surprising or shocking as it happened. More like consequence, and an ending to things. A man does a job, and then does something personal. Hard to explain. He had lived a little after having forgotten to live, and then he avenged the killing of the person that taught him how to. And then he ends it.

This is for people that like to watch good cinematography, beautiful landscape, and a story unfold, with foreboding and misgivings, but where the lead character stays strong. My take on it.
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