Let’s do this one more time.

This was the hottest week in Europe, and sitting on a sofa, even in the evening, was quite unpleasant. This might have affected my ratings for the films of the week, but… no, not really.

This week’s Visions is brought to you by a desperate need for holidays.

I’m late with the publication of this post, so let’s get to the films!

Last week, the news of the death of Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, hit me more than I would have expected.
I can’t really say why; I watched the animated movie when it was released almost twenty years ago, and I was aware of her subsequent career as a film director, but I have only watched The Voices, and I very much did not enjoy it.

Maybe it was the mention, in the same articles, of her own sadness for the death of her partner a little more than a year ago.
Maybe it’s the fact that her country of origin is once again at war.

One of the things I despise the most is the praise of ignorance, especially when deployed for populistic reasons, for elites to show they are ’normal people’. I almost walked out of a concert when the rocker on stage proudly affirmed his intention to keep writing three-chord songs for the rest of his already multi-decade-long careers, despite the critics encouraging him to evolve. There’s nothing wrong with liking simple things or staying in the comfort zone, but I disagree on making it a virtue.

My weekly roundups haven’t been fully horror-centric for a while, so please enjoy the symptoms of me wanting to watch something strong to keep work-related thoughts at bay.

I am not in a relationship at this time in my life, and although I don’t subscribe to the idea that ’loneliness is awesome’ (as I read recently… unfortunately, I couldn’t find again that post), most films I watched this week depicted couple relationships in such an extreme bad way, that made me feel a bit less eager to change my status.

I know I can be harsh when I talk about a film, and I feel guilty about judging the work of the many people that put their dedication and effort into it. Things can go wrong in anybody’s job, and for a number of reasons.
In some of these instances, it may turn out that the film is the only one the director, or the writer, ever made. Or the one that ended a promising career. In these cases, I always wonder what happened; did the person realise the job was not for them? Did they keep their passion but frustratingly weren’t given another chance?

This episode of Weekly visions is brought to you by my irritation at learning that Damian McCarthy’s Hokum will not be released in cinemas in Belgium, so I will have to wait until at some point it comes to VOD.