HBO’s Sharp Objects gets a poster just in time to makes us freak out again.
In case you will still suffering from Big Little Lies withdrawal, HBO has you covered.
The official one sheet poster dropped for the upcoming mini series starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson, and it’s here to subtly tell us that its characters are a bit damaged. It’s a gorgeous family portrait and the delicate features are offset by an ominous crack down each of the characters’ faces. The family portrait motif isn’t the most original concept (see Stoker or Natalie Portman’s cracked face on one of several Black Swan teases), but it’s effective.
Sharp Objects will premiere in July. Get that Emmy, Amy.
I must have missed the day the teaser dropped. Can’t wait! Looks very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgljcMqPG98
If only this wasn’t Vallée…
Why not Vallée…
Because I find him to be a talentless hack who has no idea of when or how to achieve meaningful stylistic beats. He is one of the few filmmakers that I actually prefer when they’re taking absolutely no risks like he did with The Young Victoria and Dallas Buyers Club because when he does that, he’s a basic storyteller. These films aren’t really any good but they’re notably better than the ones where he takes extremely good writing and exceptional performances and turns them into a dumpster fire like he did with Wild and Big Little Lies. These films feel like he picks a style and then jams it into your mouth in absurd quantities just to make sure that you’re “getting” that he’s using that style. And looking at how the narrative is being described and how the poster looks, this seems to be another of his showier projects.
If you think he turned the performances in BLL into a dumpster fire, you and I have nothing more to talk about.
I apologize for my poor phrasing. The idea that I was trying to get across was that the performances were very good (which is of course a notable part of a director’s work and he’s not a bad actors’ director) but his visual choices and the way he chose to pace scenes to me actively made the project as a whole feel like a dumpster fire. The project has incredible parts like the performances and the writing itself (even though the writing is undercut by Vallée’s directing) and these elements in the hands of a better director could have made for exhilirating storytelling but now these elements feel like people doing the best they can for the project while Vallée is trying to destroy that quality work by implementing his blunt attempts at style on top of the actors’ and the writer’s attempt at something more honest.
I see the marketing department went with the distinctive Aronofsky vibes, especially mother! / Black Swan.