Hunger

Just watched Hunger on Netflix.  I feel like it was the best bit of actual filmmaking I've seen in a long long time.  Clever and understated, there was actual craft involved in how the camera moved or didn't--how the actors moved or didn't.  There were some long long shots that somehow managed to keep my attention long past when I should have gotten bored--but I didn't.  There were so many undertones involved that I don't think I'll ever catch them all even if I watched and rewatched this movie a hundred times.

Normally this sort of artsy drama would be on the bottom of my 'enjoyed' list, but as it stands right now, I'm giving it high marks.  I feel subtlety and theater tradition dripping all over it and I love it.

All that, and I don't think there was even a whiff of pretension about it.   Just good solid cinema with a point.

What point?  Not sure.  But it was a good one.