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This is a movie so particular in its godawfulness that it makes an exhausted reviewer want to come up with the film equivalent of Tolstoy’s observation of happy families versus unhappy families. But of course, all films, good or bad, are good or bad in their own way. I don’t know, though. “All I See Is You” seems extra-uniquely bad somehow.

Blake Lively and Jason Clarke play Gina and James, a married couple living in Bangkok (“Thailand,” a title helpfully adds). Gina is blind, or, kind of blind; the movie gives us shots from her point of view from the outset, and there are flashes of color but no discernible shapes in them; more vivid, and ostensibly stimulating, are the shots contrived to show us what happens in Gina’s imagination, as a lovemaking session with James is rendered, via CGI, into a mass-body semi-orgy abstraction. Director Mark Forster, working from a script he co-wrote with Sean Conway , wants the viewer to see through Gina’s eyes and mind in a huge variety of ways; and so, this movie is, among other things, over-directed within an inch of its stillborn non-life, replete with shots through distorting lenses, ostentatious variations in color grading, high angles, low angles, mirrors, glass reflections, on and on it goes. Kudos to the producers for getting Forster and cinematographer Matthias Koenigswieser every lens and crane and drone they could have possibly wished for.

While Gina is blind now, she wasn’t always; fragments of conversations with her sister Carla and several fragmented flashbacks reveal she lost both her sight and her parents in a car accident years ago, when she was still a teenager. But wait! Doctor Danny Huston has a surgical cure, at least for Gina’s right eye. And so an operation is performed and Gina enters the world of the seeing. And she does not like everything she sees.

“Are you afraid she’ll leave you for some better-looking guy?” asks Ramon, James’ feral artiste brother-in-law, when Gina and James arrive in Spain to visit him and Carla. James says no, but one of the things that gets shaken up by Gina’s return to the sighted world is a certain sexual curiosity. Gina allows Ramon and Carla to take her to a live sex peep show, and later, on a train, James allows Gina to tie him up and blindfold him, at which he soon balks. The whole business, though, is recorded on a 360-degree video camera, and after the couple returns from their trip, James watches the video obsessively as Gina grows more frustrated with their living conditions and their inability to conceive a child.

The overheatedness of the moviemaking aside, “All I See Is You” fails to engage because it has no characters. The actors play roles, but they’re bereft of personality; they have no interests, no opinions, no animating force. Forster clearly disdains exposition, and who can blame him given how clunkily it’s used on most films. But at some point you’re thinking: why is this couple in Thailand? (It’s revealed in a throwaway line that James works in insurance, while Gina has no vocation or job. But still.) How did they meet? Things like that. Might help to provide some dimension. But no.

Certainly the performers don’t help. Blake Lively may be a very nice person (and then again, she may not be), but as a screen presence she’s ersatz in a way that’s too perfect for these terrible times: she’s poised without showing any refinement, her appearance is a blueprint of sex appeal but she exudes exactly zero eroticism, and her demeanor overall suggests a void of intelligence, albeit one well-trained in putting on faces that say “thoughtful.” Clarke, with little to latch onto in the script, furrows his brow and lets his American accent run away from him over-frequently.

Once the film shifts modes, a little over an hour in, from “Scenes from a Marriage You Don’t Care About” to “Bad Gaslighting,” well, there’s a certain novelty value for a couple of minutes. As in the novelty value of “I thought this couldn’t get worse.”

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Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here .

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All I See Is You (2017)

Rated R for strong sexual content/nudity, and language.

110 minutes

Blake Lively as Gina

Jason Clarke as James

Yvonne Strahovski as Karen

Danny Huston as Doctor Hughes

Marc Forster
Sean Conway

Cinematographer

Matthias Koenigswieser
Hughes Winborne
Marc Streitenfeld

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“All I See Is You” is halfway through before something resembling a plot kicks in, and even then this limp, shape-shifting psychodrama proves unable to sell it with anything approaching coherence.

Yet the director, Marc Forster (who wrote the script with Sean Conway), fashions such a languid, tipsy aesthetic around the seemingly happy marriage of Gina and James (Blake Lively and Jason Clarke) that it’s easy to keep watching. Legally blind since childhood, Gina rarely leaves their home in Bangkok, relying almost entirely on the attentive James. But when a cornea transplant restores vision to one eye, Gina discovers that her life is not quite as she imagined.

Nor is she. New erotic interests surface during a trip to Spain, where the hypersexualized marriage of her sister and brother-in-law nudges the film into seamier territory and prompts a change in Gina’s appearance. As James becomes increasingly destabilized by his wife’s transformation, the movie seems keen to linger over what can happen to a relationship when a previously dependent partner gains agency.

Instead, we’re hastened toward a nonsensical, almost illegible ending that lays waste to all this careful mood-setting. Ms. Lively is well cast, gracefully patrolling the boundary of her limited range, with Mr. Clarke less steady in the more amorphous role of someone who seems a bit off from the outset. And though the milky visual disruptions that signal Gina’s initially blurry view of the world are overdone, there’s something seductive about her journey that cries out for a filmmaker like Nicolas Roeg . In his hands, the haze of sex and danger that surrounds these two might have been revealed as more than just a tease.

Rated R for blurry sex, boring bondage and a man in a minidress. Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes.

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All I See Is You Reviews

Despite an ending that layers on the drama and metaphor a bit more thickly than it needs to, this is a finely crafted piece of work and well worth looking out for.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 14, 2020

This film is eminently passable.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2019

Nothing happens in All I See is You. The film is one life-altering procedure jammed into one ugly, bloated and cellulite-heavy existence that is otherwise similar to everybody else.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 2, 2019

A stronger actor with better screen presence might have exploded the film's commentary on toxic masculinity, so Clarke's wishy-washy loser makes the drama intermittently dull.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2019

All I See is You's commitment to be scenic reflects its forgetfulness to be thrilling.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Oct 11, 2018

In [Marc Foster's] lucid balance between intentions, method and results, the film is, as Adrian Martin said, perfect. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2018

If All I See Is You had worked as a thriller, then maybe I wouldn't still be thinking about why Blake Lively put a dead bird in the freezer.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2018

The film is baffling, seemingly setting up every giant clue about something terrible happening, while only creating a lot of confusion.

Full Review | Dec 18, 2017

There are some issues in this erotic thriller that director Marc Forster wants to address, but the execution is wanting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 15, 2017

While this has interesting moments, Foster seems unable to follow the story into as deep or dark a place as it should go and the ambiguity in the storytelling is unwarranted and frustrating to witness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 15, 2017

There is an appreciated sense of unconventionally to the film. However, the story quickly takes an overemotional and theatrical turn which diminish the many topics the story could have explored.

This tepid psychodrama suffers from a weak script with an absurd conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 2, 2017

Some nice visual perspective from (a sightless) point of view. Lots of pretentious BS, too.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2017

Despite an interesting premise and a promising first act, All I See Is You ultimately fails to deliver much beyond a gradual descent into disinterest and watch-checking.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 27, 2017

By the time things shifts into hackneyed thriller contrivances, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain interest...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 27, 2017

The film seems to lose sight of what it would really mean to regain one's vision. (Full Content Review for Parents - Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity, etc. - also Available)

Full Review | Oct 27, 2017

An impressionistic art piece that tries and fails to be a compelling movie that's worth watching.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Oct 27, 2017

You might be laughing at the movie by the time you reach its go-for-broke final shot, but the look on Lively's face is enough to fulfill the idea that loving someone is not the same as needing someone.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 27, 2017

Director Marc Forster takes a melodramatic plot from a Sunday-night cable feature and tries to expand it to the big screen with bigger stars and more exotic locales, but it still retains the predictability of a movie of the week.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Oct 27, 2017

As pretentious, nearly unwatchable fiascos go, All I See Is You is that rare film that can empty theaters in its first (interminable) half hour.

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What seems a perfect union between Blake Lively and Jason Clarke hits a rocky patch when her sight is restored after years of blindness in Marc Forster's psychological thriller.

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Blake Lively might have been better off swimming with that shark in The Shallows than subjecting herself to the gummy toothlessness of Marc Forster ‘s wet psychodrama All I See Is You . Playing a woman blinded as a child and now living with her husband in Bangkok, she undergoes a successful corneal transplant to restore her sight, only to discover that clarity of vision exposes the cracks in her marriage. Or something like that. The Southeast Asian setting has minimal relevance, beyond recalling the Pang Brothers’ The Eye . That 2002 horror chiller and its sequels unleashed post-blindness visions of ghostly nightmares that were far more memorable than this underheated intrigue.

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The premise of “All I See Is You,” wherein Blake Lively stars as a blind woman who has her sight restored, sounds unbearably sentimental. Thankfully, the film itself is far weirder than that.

Director Marc Forster explores questions of identity in relationship to sensory experiences in this erotic-ish thriller, about a woman whose whole self opens up to the world -- for better or for worse -- after cutting-edge eye surgery restores the sight she lost as a child in a tragic accident.

Forster, who wrote the script with Sean Conway, seems fascinated by creating a cinematic experience of blindness. It’s a unique viewing experience, as he weaves a visual spectacle of morphing light and color, melding into abstract shapes, a kaleidoscope of fractured, fantastical images coupled with detailed sound design in an attempt to represent the perspective of Gina (Lively) and her experience of the world.

Gina lives in Bangkok with her husband, James (Jason Clarke), for his job. But not much about their background or past is fleshed out, beyond her flashbacks to the terrible childhood car accident that took her sight and killed her parents. He’s the protector of his vulnerable wife, and seems to both relish and strain at the responsibility of caring for her and helping her navigate her small world.

“All I See Is You” posits that our selves are defined by how we experience the world. If a sense is taken away or restored, it changes the way we see ourselves, the way we move, how we relate to others. With her sight back, Gina wants to eat up the world in great gulps - explosions of color at the flower market, faces in the crowd, a kayaking trip, her own face with makeup, her body in a sexy dress, a Spanish peep show with her sister and brother-in-law. With her sight intact, she becomes a different person - it affects how she presents herself to the world, changes her sexuality - and that doesn’t sit well with her husband.

As an actor, Clarke seems to shape-shift if the light hits him in a certain way. He’s at once handsome and guileless, but at the right angle his visage darkens. As he toes the line between loving and sinister, we never quite trust him. He leaves blind Gina for a minute too long outside a nightclub bathroom and later he seems wary of her, when she changes as the result of her surgery. His power crumbles as she gains hers, and we’re never quite sure how exactly he might try to hold onto that power.

There are moments of the experimental, abstract and sensual in “All I See Is You,” where Forster keeps the audience utterly unmoored, questioning where this story could possibly go. That sensation is a rare experience in most genre-based cinema, and with a few notable exceptions, “All I See Is You” is refreshingly resistant to predictability.

But for all of Forster’s experimentation, and his willingness to prod at the strange, jagged edges of this relationship, he ultimately rejects darkness. The final message may tip toward sentimental, but it’s in line with the film’s embrace of light all along.

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Running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes

Rating: R, for strong sexual content and nudity, and language

Playing: In general release

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All I See is You

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October 27, 2017
Blake Lively as Gina; Jason Clarke as James; Ahna O'Reilly as Carla; Miquel Fernández as Ramon; Xavi Sánchez as Luca; Yvonne Strahovski as Karen; Wes Chatham as Daniel; Danny Huston as Doctor Hughes

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Gina is blind. She had full sight when she was a little girl, but a car crash turned her pupils to pulp, leaving the visual world nothing more than a strange, uncertain whorl. Her life in Bangkok—where her husband, James, works in insurance—is filled with sounds and smells and sensation, but no color. No visual delineation at all.

But despite her blindness, Gina spies some hope: An eye specialist tells her that he just might be able to repair one of her eyeballs. Naturally, she and James latch onto this thread of hope. Gina goes under the knife and …

It works! She’s dazzled by colors. She’s fascinated by patterns. She looks at her husband and …

Well, OK, James is a little disappointing in the looks department. But no matter, because at least they live in a beautiful …

No, make that a fairly average apartment, I guess, where their outdoor balcony is so close to the neighbors that Gina could almost reach out and yank a cigarette from the old lady across the way.

So what if life isn’t quite as beautiful as she imagined. If someone saw her for the first time, maybe they’d be disappointed, too.

Or not! Because Gina’s beautiful ! Like, Blake Lively beautiful, in fact! She’s young! Adventurous! She has no reason to be scared of the big, bright world anymore, not now that she sees its true colors.

So just what, Gina begins to ask herself is she doing with plain ol’, boring ol’ insurance guy James in a semi-dumpy apartment? How, exactly, should a gorgeous woman in the middle of Bangkok spend her time?

She’ll soon see, I guess—quite literally. But will James wish that she didn’t?

Positive Elements

Gina seems to love three things: sex, kids and dogs. And while her sexual predilections grow a bit … questionable, we have no quibbles with her desire to teach a young lass guitar or to save a pooch from being euthanized. Bravo, Gina!

Spiritual Elements

None, unless you read quasi-religious symbolism into a naked minotaur statue painted in what appears to be blood. (Bulls have long been associated in various religions with sex and virility, and plenty of gods over the ages have sported a bull’s head. In the context of the scene, the sculpture seems designed to evoke some sort of sexualized pagan ritual, with a naked man paying homage to the visage.)

Sexual Content

Before Gina regains her sight, she and James have a seemingly fulfilling sex life. The movie’s first scene takes us straight into their passionate lovemaking, descending into a literal kaleidoscope of naked arms and legs and backs and rears.

But when Gina begins to regain her eyesight, sex becomes less rewarding because of problems James is having. She later blindfolds and ties him to a bed. An explicit and lengthy conversation about fantasies and masturbation ensues. (Incidentally, she records the whole, uncomfortable act with a video camera, and James re-watches the scene later.)

Still other sex scenes involving other characters include more breast and backside nudity, as well as explicit movements and sounds. A woman’s shown showering from the side and rear. Another scene includes a man making suggestive pantomimes with the above-mentioned minotaur statue. We hear a suggestive conversation about a male swimmer’s “package.”

Gina takes a bath with Carla’s 9- or 10-year-old son—an interlude that Gina doesn’t find weird or creepy at all, but James believes is pretty inappropriate. (Both bathers have their critical parts covered in bubbles.) A man wears a woman’s dress, both as a joke and as something that’s apparently a turn on for him.

Someone apparently grabs Gina’s rear, and she’s upset when James seems unconcerned. She wears flattering, revealing garb. We see her in a swimsuit, too, at one point sharing the pool with what appears to be a squadron of gigantic sperm.

Violent Content

In flashback, we see images from the car crash that blinded Gina, including a shot of her blood-soaked face. (Both of her parents were killed in the accident, we also learn.) After Gina’s surgery, her eye often seems filled with blood. Someone else apparently is killed in a car crash. A neighbor wants to euthanize the family dog because she won’t have time to take care of it and her two children. A bird slams into a window and dies. (Gina stores the corpse in the fridge, for some reason.) Gina and James’ house is ransacked.

Crude or Profane Language

More than 15 f-words and five s-words. We also hear “a–,” “d–n,” “d–ks,” “h—” and “p-ss.” God’s name is misused seven times, while Jesus’ name is abused twice.

Drug and Alcohol Content

Gina smokes on occasion, even though James encourages her to quit. Others do, too, including the couple’s balcony-sitting neighbor across the street.

Everyone drinks, and frequently. Beer and wine seems to be the beverages of choice. James staggers into his apartment late one night, apparently drunk. Several scenes take place in bars or clubs.

Other Negative Elements

Gina and James’ dog experiences a long afternoon in their apartment, urinating and defecating everywhere. James steps in some excrement, and we see plenty of the stuff all around. There’s an image of toilet paper being flushed down a toilet bowl. Menstrual blood runs down Gina’s leg.

[ Spoiler Warning ] James isn’t so happy about Gina’s recovered eyesight, so he sabotages her steroid eye drops, sapping her ability to see. He lies to her and plays tricks on her sometimes, apparently to feed his own sense of power and increase her dependence on him.

The gift of sight is great. Really. But sometimes, sight is more trouble than it’s worth. Say, for example, when one must sit through a movie like All I See Is You.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Director Marc Forster has made some mighty fine movies in the past, including the family-friendly Finding Neverland , the surprisingly thoughtful Stranger Than Fiction and the super-problematic but widely lauded Monster’s Ball . You’d think he’d know what he’s doing and, as such, I wonder if All I See is You was intended, on some level, to be a metaphor: Gina might be a representation of female liberation, who can suddenly “see” a far bigger, broader, sexual world than she previously could experience, while James is a representative of manhood, fearful and threatened by the female’s newfound freedom.

But be it metaphor or not, it doesn’t make the movie any better. Indeed, from a spiritual point of view, it makes it significantly worse.

Gina’s sexual exploration dives into deeply problematic territory, both thematically and visually—from an extramarital affair, to an explicit peep show she watches, to her “innocent” bath with her not-so-little nephew. While the movie takes pains to sculpt James as a surly stick-in-the-mud, it kinda seems like he’s got a point: Maybe she shouldn’t be watching masked, naked performers do the deed live, in front of a paying audience. Maybe you shouldn’t be taking naked baths with young relatives on the verge of adolescence.

Freedom is a funny thing, and sexual freedom is no different: To be utterly, wholly free can be dangerous without judicious boundaries: To be simultaneously free and alive and fulfilled and healthy requires a certain level of restraint and self-policing. And maybe it’s just me being a James-like stick-in-the-mud, but it seems to me that just as Gina’s senses grow deeper, she herself grows shallower.

Aesthetically, the film fares no better. It’s so enraptured by its imagery and symbolism that it loses any sort of purpose and control of its own plot. This film is like a cake made entirely of food coloring. It’s bad, plain and simple—and not even the sort of bad that you marvel at its terribleness or puzzle over its deficiencies, but the sort of bad that feels like a stomach flu: You just want to be done with it and forget about it as soon as possible.

All I Can See Is You? Let’s not see this at all.

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

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'All I See Is You,' with Blake Lively and Jason Clarke, is hypnotic look at a marriage unraveling

Critic's rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Following a surgery to restore her sight, Gina (Blake Lively) begins dealing with her husband (Jason Clarke) in a different manner in "All I See Is You."

Strange, surreal and compelling, “All I See Is You” is a dreamy exploration of a marriage, and what happens when all of its imbalances and insecure quirks are suddenly thrust out in the open.

It’s also something of a thriller, and the two worlds don’t mesh in a way that is completely satisfying. Still, it’s riveting to watch everything unfold.

James and Gina comprise the couple in question. James (Jason Clarke) works for an insurance company and is doing quite well. His job has brought the couple to Bangkok, where they reside in an apartment that is sleek and contemporary, but it’s in a building that’s rather drab.

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Gina (Blake Lively) was blinded as a child in a car accident that killed her parents. She gives guitar lessons to children that live in her building but doesn’t appear to work otherwise. A wistful sort, she lives a full life, but relies heavily on her husband.

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They seem happy and comfortable, but you can sense some of the underlying tension. The two are (unsuccessfully) trying to have a baby, which is frustrating. Their temperaments are also different. When they go out for the night, she dances with abandon while he is reserved and can’t break loose. He snaps at her and apologizes; she accepts. But he also gingerly comforts her when she gets frightened and begins to weep during an MRI.

At another point, she makes love to James, and we see what she pictures: a mass of muscular bodies envelope her, almost like an orgy. The cinematography by Matthias Koenigswieser is quite creative, effectively capturing both what Gina sees (shadowy images with light streaming from them) and how she visualizes everything.

The story gains momentum when Gina gets the opportunity to have a corneal transplant in one eye. Her sight returns rather rapidly. The couple is joyous, but you quickly feel the seismic shifts in their relationship.

Gina stares at James, for example, and tells him, “You look different than what I had in my head.” You can tell by the way she says it that it’s not a good thing, and you feel James silently deflate. Director Marc Forster (he wrote the film with Sean Conway) does an outstanding job creating fully rounded characters; you feel your sympathies shift from one to the other and back again.

Suddenly, Gina's clothing seems very utilitarian, and she starts opting for outfits that show more skin. The apartment that once felt like home seems uncomfortable now that she can see how close the neighbors literally are. Setting the film abroad adds to the chill and alienation, a wise move on Forster's part.

James arranges for a trip to southern Spain, where the couple honeymooned. The room has a gorgeous, breathtaking view. It's the same room we stayed in, he says. It's not, she argues. And it becomes an intriguing point of contention: Is he an insecure man trying to make their honeymoon seem nicer than it was? Or are there darker motives at work?

They venture to Barcelona to visit her sister (Ahna O'Reilly) and her husband (Miguel Fernandez), who immediately picks on James about how Gina is, essentially, out of his league. Though it is never mentioned onscreen, there is a sizable age gap between the two (Clarke is 18 years older than Lively), which adds to the growing unease.

During the trip, Gina's sexual proclivities move further away from James' inhibited, strait-laced style. She visits a sex club with her family while he nervously waits outside. At another point, she tries tying James up and blindfolding him, but the moment ends in awkward anger rather than the passion Gina hoped for.

Once they return home, the movie twists in another direction, as the distrust between the couple grows dangerous. The film doesn't lose a viewer but it lurches a bit, as it moves in a rather Hitchcockian direction. But even as the plot grows more lurid — as if Spanish sex clubs weren't lurid enough — the characters are still darkly fascinating.

Forster has directed big movies ("World War Z," "Quantum of Solace") and smaller films heavy on characterization ("Monster's Ball," "The Kite Runner"). But this recalls the director's "Stay," a brooding, visually hypnotic film with Ewan McGregor that was promoted as a horror yarn but was much more ambiguous than advertised.

"All I See Is You" shares that ambiguity. It's being billed as a thriller, but it's more about watching two fine actors at work and being swept up in the sumptuous visuals and moody atmosphere. The film may splinter apart in the final moments, but you don't feel cheated, because, ultimately, it is more about the journey than the endgame.

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'All I See Is You,' 4 stars

Director: Marc Forster.

Cast: Blake Lively, Jason Clarke.

Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity and language.

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When the movie opens, Gina (Lively) is happily married to James (Clarke). They live in Thailand (presumably because that locale is deemed more exotic than, say, Brooklyn). Gina, blind for about 20 years as a result of a childhood car accident that killed her parents, learns from a doctor (Danny Huston) that an operation could restore sight in one eye. She agrees to the surgery and, in its immediate aftermath, the couple is thrilled. But a dark side emerges. Reality doesn’t match how Gina imagined things would look and, as she adjusts to life as a seeing person, she is gripped by a sense of melancholia. James, on the other hand, realizes that the “new Gina” is not the wife he had grown comfortable with. This woman is more independent and free-spirited. She no longer relies on him for everything. She shows a predilection for kinky sex and adventures, neither of which interest him. He comes to the conclusion that “they” (meaning “he”) were happier when she was blind and he begins to ponder whether there might be a way for them to return to that state.

The movie perks up during the operation’s aftermath. The screenplay and actors do a good job portraying the shifting emotions that accompany this life-altering occurrence. Some, like Gina having difficulty coping with surroundings that don’t match the images she had created in her imagination, are expected. Others, like James’ jealousy of the freedom and independence sight imparts to her, are not. Had the movie explored these elements better (and with more energy), All I See Is You might have settled into an effective groove. Unfortunately, the story decides to take a lurid turn into B-grade psychological thriller material without bothering to worry about the “thrill” part of the equation. The grand finale is laughably absurd.

Had I not appreciated Forster’s previous work, I wouldn’t have been disappointed by what he accomplishes (or fails to accomplish) here. The story is pregnant with possibilities and the actors are committed to their roles (Lively, for example, does an excellent job with the scenes in which her character is blind) but the sluggish pacing and general lack-of-energy creates an impatience that’s exacerbated by the screenplay’s final act artifice. Blind to its missteps, the movie stumbles into a darkness from which it never escapes.

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The thriller-ish premise of “All I See Is You” sounds familiar enough: A woman, blind since a childhood accident that killed her parents, undergoes surgery to restore sight in one eye, only to discover that her seemingly devoted husband is — well, what exactly? A prude? A control freak? Someone who doesn’t like dogs?

In this bait-and-switch of a movie, marketed like a modern “Gaslight” but in truth a dim-bulb marital melodrama, the chills — let alone the shocks — are nonexistent. And the secrets that are revealed, to the extent that a viewer is able to make out what they are, remain murky, even to the end of the movie.

Blake Lively plays Gina, who, as the film opens, is living with her adoring, insurance-executive husband James (Jason Clarke) in what an on-screen title informs us is Bangkok. We are again reminded of the unlikely setting — given the scarcity of actual Thai people seen — when Gina is shown eating carryout from Bangkok Kitchen. Never mind that this sounds more like the name of a restaurant in Cleveland than in Thailand.

Director Marc Forster (“World War Z”) juices up the mysterious atmosphere in his story (written with Sean Conway) from the get-go, shooting with a blurry, impressionist evocation of blindness that you might call impair-o-vision. Sudden, loud noises intrude on the inchoate swirl of light and shapes, meant to suggest Gina’s enhanced sense of hearing but actually evoking a cheesy horror film. The movie has barely begun, and already it feels like we’re supposed to be afraid of something. Yet it isn’t clear what — or whom.

Once Gina regains her sight, her relationship with James almost immediately starts to deteriorate. She’s an animal lover, he isn’t, and he complains about the dog she has adopted without his permission. Permission? Uh-oh.

James also disapproves when Gina begins dressing more provocatively, dyeing her straw-colored hair light blond and, during a visit to Barcelona to see her sister (Ahna O’Reilly), watching a peep show featuring a couple copulating in animal masks. Although Gina and James’s sex life seemed fine before, it’s obvious that something is off now. In one scene, James panics when Gina ties him up, blindfolds him and mounts him in, one assumes, an effort to turn the tables.

Clearly, there was something unhealthy about their relationship all along: a power imbalance that has uncomfortably shifted now that Gina has gained more independence. At the same time, some of her new behavior is demonstrably odd. The trip to Spain, for instance, includes a morbid pilgrimage to the spot where Gina’s parents died. She also bathes with her nephew (Xavi Sánchez) and places a dead bird in the fridge after it flies into a pane of glass.

Throughout all of these head-scratching red herrings, Forster’s Hitchcockian camera keeps drawing our attention to the eyedrops that Gina’s doctor (Danny Huston) has prescribed to reduce inflammation but which seem to have the opposite effect, causing a loss of visual acuity. At one point, there’s a mysterious break-in at James and Gina’s apartment, and the couple’s dog goes missing. Gina, who seems to be drifting further and further away from her husband — to the point of infidelity — is going blind again. Whether it’s because of tainted drops — and who is doing the tainting and why — is an enigma, albeit not much of one.

“All I See is You” is a drama of sexual compulsion and control masquerading as a mystery. Despite a modicum of visual style and competent performances, it is unable to keep us guessing — or, more important, to make us care — long enough to work up true suspense.

Does James want Gina to go blind so he can feel needed again? Or does Gina, having experienced a world that is simultaneously more — and less — than the one she dreamed of, decide that she was better off in the dark? These are all good questions. But they are not answered, let alone asked, in “All I See Is You.” When Gina tells James that the world in front of her is “not how I imagined,” you may find yourself sharing that same sense of letdown.

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Izzy’s response to Hayes and Solene’s relationship in Lee’s version of the story is vastly different from her reaction in the movie. In the book, Izzy finds Hayes and Solene kissing and is angry with her mother. Her outrage is further magnified by the fact that she is relentlessly teased about her mother’s new boyfriend at school. However, the movie version of Izzy is more understanding of Haye’s and Solene’s relationship . Despite being initially shocked by their romance, Izzy is supportive of Solene and just wants her mother to be happy.

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The fact that the movie version of The Idea of You aged Izzy served the story well. When Izzy becomes aware of Solene and Haye’s relationship, she comes to her mother’s aid instead of being angry at Solene for keeping her relationship a secret . At 16, Izzy was capable of recognizing that the media was treating Solene horribly because she was older than Hayes.

Further, Izzy’s maturity created a space for her and Solene to have open conversations about relationships that they wouldn’t have had if she had been a 12-year-old. The mother and daughter have a much better dynamic, which is reflected in the way that Izzy stands up for Solene amidst the media circus. Additionally, as a high schooler, Izzy had aged out of her obsession with August Moon, which made it easier for Solene to be with Hayes in The Idea of You .

The Idea of You (2024)

Director Michael Showalter

Release Date May 2, 2024

Cast Mathilda Gianopoulos, Jordan Aaron Hall, Anne Hathaway Nicholas Galitzine, Perry Mattfeld, Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Annie Mumolo

Runtime 115 Minutes

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“The Substance” got one of the biggest ovations at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. You also might need to take a barf bag with you when you see it.

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When I say The Substance , the Demi Moore -starring movie that rocked Cannes , is bloody that’s an understatement. Take the amount of blood you think could be in this movie and double it. No, triple it. At one point during the runtime you will think you have seen the bloodiest part, but just you wait. It gets bloodier.

And yet the blood isn’t even the part of this wonderfully batshit body horror spectacular that had me almost throwing up. It’s a symphony of lurching flesh that might have you both gagging and cheering. The audience at my press screening of Cannes certainly did. We whooped, we gasped, and we clapped. It’s the grossest thing you will see all year.

Directed by Coralie Fargeat, of the also bloody Revenge , the film is at its core pretty simple. Moore, who is locked into her role, is Elisabeth Sparkle, a fading star with a workout empire called Sparkle Your Life, where she sways her booty like Jane Fonda back in the day. But she is also miserable. Hollywood—or the fake version of Hollywood with ’80s flourishes that Fargeat has created—is casting her out. An executive not inconsequentially named Harvey, and played with disgusting gusto by Dennis Quaid, wants to replace her. (An early nasty moment involves Quaid eating shrimp with a close up on his mouth.)

After getting in a car accident when absentmindedly looking at a billboard of herself being torn down, a nurse who looks like he has been run through an Instagram filter slips her a flash drive introducing her to “The Substance” with a note that says “it changed my life.” She watched the promo, which promises a new, younger, and better you by unlocking your DNA. Of course, there are warnings: You must remember that despite the two bodies you are still one person. You must stabilize yourself using spinal fluid every day. And you must switch every seven days.

Desperate, she gives it a go, retrieving her kit from a locker in a blindingly white room from a dingy address. Once injecting herself, out of her back emerges her other self played by Margaret Qualley, who is taut where Elisabeth sags. (Though of course Moore looks amazing, it should be noted.) This new Elisabeth sews up the back of her creator—Fargeat makes sure you hear the sound of needle hitting skin as well as see it. Then, calling herself Sue, the other self heads out to a casting call where she is immediately chosen as Elisabeth’s replacement. Naturally, the love and recognition means that Sue starts to abuse the rules of The Substance, forcing Elisabeth to deteriorate in the process. First, it’s one of her fingers that withers into that of a woman in her nineties. Then it is so much more.

The two halves of a whole start to bicker and rail against one another, but are constantly reminded by the disembodied voice on the other end of the phone number for The Substance that they are indeed the same person. They can only blame themselves for any indiscretion. Because ultimately, The Substance is about a woman who hates herself when she isn’t being loved and will do anything to achieve the recognition for her beauty she craves.

The messaging can be obvious at times throughout the movie, and is hammered home by the fact that it all seems to exist in an alternate, one dimensional universe where celebrity is defined by “the morning show” and no one questions when a girl shows up out of nowhere with the single name Sue. And yet the horror is so creative and over the top, you don’t mind the lack of world building. Similarly, while the script doesn’t care much about Elisabeth’s backstory, you can see the frustration in Moore’s face, as she grapples with her insecurity. One of the best moments in the entire film has no icky ooze, but is just of Moore getting ready for date, constantly changing her makeup until she ends up standing up a high school classmate still in awe of her.

Still, yeah, it’s the gore that makes The Substance worth seeing whether you end up loving or hating it. The visual effects and prosthetics work is astounding in its gruesomeness. A beat when Qualley feels something in her butt and then ultimately pulls a chicken leg from her belly button, for instance, is truly sickening.

Fargeat has made a movie about beauty that is thoroughly ugly in its perversions of the human body. I think some will argue that it punishes Elisabeth for her vanity in a way that is unfair, but there is also a liberation in the disgusting contortions. Come prepared though. You might need a barf bag.

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‘The Apprentice’ Review: Sebastian Stan Plays Donald Trump in a Docudrama That Nails Everything About Him but His Mystery

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A lot of people would disagree with me, but I think there’s a mystery at the heart of Donald Trump. Many believe there’s no mystery, just a highly visible and documented legacy of bad behavior, selfishness, used-car-salesman effrontery, criminal transgressions, and abuse of power. They would say that Trump lies, slurs, showboats, bullies, toots racist dog whistles so loudly they’re not whistles anymore, and is increasingly open about the authoritarian president he plans to be.

All totally true, but also too easy. What it all leaves out, about the precise kind of man Donald Trump is, is this:

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And that, in its way, is the hook of “ The Apprentice .” Written by journalist Gabriel Sherman, and directed by Ali Abbasi (who made a splash two years ago with the Iranian serial-killer drama “Holy Spider”), the movie is a spirited, entertaining, and not overly cheeky docudrama about the years in which Donald Trump came to be Donald Trump. Which is to say: He wasn’t always.

And that’s when a pair of eyes fixate on him. Seated at a table in the next room is Roy Cohn ( Jeremy Strong ), the infamous HUAC lawyer and Red Scare architect who became notorious for being the man who sent the Rosenbergs to the electric chair. Twenty years later, he’s a private lawyer and fixer who’s friends with everyone that counts (mobsters, politicians, media barons). He eyes Donald Trump like a hungry dragon looking at a virgin. Cohn’s head is tilted down, his black eyes are tilted up (so that there’s half an inch of white at the bottom of them). This is the Cohn Stare, and it can accurately be described as a look of homicide. It’s not that he wants to kill you. It’s that he wants to kill something — it will be you, or it will be another party on your behalf.

Cohn summons Trump over to his table, and Jeremy Strong, speaking in a fast, clipped voice that fires insults like bullets, instantly possesses us. With silver-gray hair cut short and those eyes that see all, Strong does a magnetic impersonation of the Roy Cohn who turned bullying into a form of cutthroat vaudeville (and a new way to practice law), putting his scoundrel soul right out there, busting chops and balls with his misanthropic Jewish-outsider locker-room wit. He’s not just cutting, he’s nasty . And that’s to his friends! Trump, by contrast, seems soft — maybe shockingly soft if you’ve never seen a clip of him from the ’70s. He’s like a big shaggy overgrown boy, and though he’s got his real-estate ambition, his power-broker dreams (he drives a Caddy with a license plate that says DJT), he has no idea how ruthless he’s going to have to be to get them.

Cohn the reptile looks at Trump and sees a mark, an ally, maybe a kid with potential. He’s very good-looking (people keep comparing him to Robert Redford), and that matters; he’s also a lump of unmolded clay. As Trump explains, his family is in a pickle that could take them down. The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organization for discriminating against Black people when it comes to who they’ll rent their apartments to. Since the family is, in fact, guilty, there doesn’t seem to be a way out of it. But Cohn, right there, floats a plan for how to do it. He says: countersue the government. It’s part of his strategy of attack, attack, attack (the first of his three rules for living).

That Roy Cohn successfully beat the government on behalf of the Trump Organization, neutering the discrimination suit, is a famous story. If Gabriel Sherman’s script is to be believed, “The Apprentice” tells an even more scandalous version. In the movie, Cohn is going to lose the case and knows it. (The Trump Organization has rent forms by Black applicants marked with the letter “C.”) So at a diner, he and Donald have a casual meeting with the federal official who’s authorizing the case. He won’t budge. But then Cohn pulls out a manila envelope. Inside it are photographs of the official frolicking with cabana boys in Cancun. Cohn, who is gay, turns his own closeted existence into a form of power. A deal is struck. And Trump is off and running, his empire built on a poison pill.

New York, at this point, is in its shabby edge-of-bankruptcy ’70s dystopian era, and Donald is determined to change that. His dream is to buy the boarded-up Commodore Hotel on 42nd St., right next to Grand Central Terminal, and turn it into a glittering luxury Grand Hyatt hotel. The area is so decrepit that most people think he’s nuts. But this is where we can see something about Trump: that he wasn’t just a charlatan with a big mouth — that he had a perception of things. He was right about New York: that it would come back, and that deals like his could be part of what brought it back. But the art of the deal, in this case, comes from Roy Cohn. He’s the one who greases the wheels to make it happen. And Donald is now his protégé.

Ali Abbasi stages the “The Apprentice” with a lot of jagged handheld shots that look a bit too much like television to my eyes, but they do the job; they convince us of the reality we’re seeing. So does the décor — as Trump starts to develop a taste for more lavish surroundings, the movie recreates every inch of baroque merde -gold vulgarity. And Sebastian Stan’s performance is a wonder. He gets Trump’s lumbering geek body language, the imposing gait with his hands held stiffly at his sides, and just as much he gets the facial language. He starts out with an open, boyish look, under the mop of hair we can see Donald is obsessed with, but as the movie goes on that look, by infinitesimal degrees, turns more and more calculated.

For its first half, “The Apprentice” is kind of a knockout: the inside look at how Trump evolved that so many of us have imagined for so long, and seeing it play out is both convincing and riveting. Yet I have an issue with the movie, and it all pivots around the mystery of Trump. I don’t think “The Apprentice” ever penetrates it.

There’s a moment when Trump is getting too big for his britches, ignoring another lesson that’s there in the Cohn worldview, which is that you have to maneuver in the real world. Cohn questions Trump’s obsession with building a casino in Atlantic City, a place Cohn says has “peaked.” He’s right. Trump winds up making bad investments, flying too close to the sun, and ultimately shutting Roy out — treating Roy the way that Roy treats everyone else. It’s an evolution of supreme hubris, especially when you think back to the slightly sheepish kid from Flushing who lined up to kiss Cohn’s ring.

The trouble is, we don’t fully see where that side of Trump comes from. In a relatively quick period, starting from around the time of the Atlantic City deal, and building through the moment when he pisses off the Mobster and Cohn crony Tony Salerno (Joe Pingue), which results in the half-built Trump Tower being set on fire by Salerno’s goons, Donald turns into the Trump we know today: the toxically arrogant man-machine of malignant narcissism, who treats everyone around him like crap. His marriage to Ivana devolves into a loveless debacle. He turns on his downward-spiraling alcoholic brother like a stranger. He becomes so heartless that he makes Roy Cohn look civil. He turns on Cohn, in part because Cohn has AIDS, which freaks Donald out.

We know Donald Trump did all these things. But what we don’t see, watching “The Apprentice,” is where the Sociopath 3.0 side of Trump comes from. His daddy issues, as the film presents them, won’t explain it (not really). The fact that he gets hooked on amphetamines, popping diet pills around the clock, is part of it. Yet the Trump we see goes through a looking glass of treachery, leveraging his empire — and what’s left of his emotions — to within an inch of his life. And once that happens, we’re simply watching a well-acted TV-movie made up of familiar anecdotes built around the Trump we already know. At that point, “The Apprentice,” good as much of it is, becomes far less interesting. The mystery the movie never solves is what Trump was thinking, deep down, when he chose to become Donald Trump.

Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (In Competition), May 19, 2024. Running time: 140 MIN.

Production: Kinematics LLC, Baer Development/Gidden Media presents, in association with Rocket Science, Head Gear Films and Metrol Technology, Project Infinity, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, a Scythia Films, Profile Pictures, Tailored Films production. Producers: David Bekerman, Jacob Jarek, Ruth Treacy, Julianna Forde, Louis Tisné, Ali Abbasi. Executive producers: Amy Baer, Mark H. Rappaport, Emanuel Nunez, Grant S. Johnson, Phil Hunt, Compton Cross, Thorsten Schumacher, Levi Woodward, Niamh Fagan, Gabriel Sherman, Greg Denny, James Shani, Noor Alfallah, Andy Cohen, Andrew Frank, Neil Mathieson, Lee Broda, Blair Ward, Anders Erdén.
Crew: Director: Ali Abbasi. Screenplay: Gabriel Sherman. Camera: Kasper Tuxen. Editors: Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Olivier Bugge Coutté. Music: David Holmes, Brian Irvine, Martin Dirkov.
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Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of ... Read all Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship. Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship.

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WeTransfer is the simplest way to send (and receive) big files. Whether you’re at your desk or on the go, transfer up to 200 GB in one go. That’s about 2000 videos of your cat. Share photos and videos in their original format, including all the important EXIF metadata that originates from your camera. With WeTransfer, you can check the download status, forward, and delete transfers right from your phone. If you previously sent a transfer from your laptop, you can access the files and link in the app, so you can easily paste it into your favorite messaging app without needing to open your computer. Our Live Activity notifies you when a transfer finishes uploading, so you can multitask or play a quick game while sending huge files. Notifications let you know the minute you receive something so you can preview (or download) your files wherever you are. About us Having made our name in the game of quick and simple file-sharing, WeTransfer has grown into a collection of tools designed for and inspired by the creative process. Collect is the go-to app for saving and sharing inspiration in boards that organize your ideas. Portals makes it easy to request feedback on your in progress projects with Reviews that include asset markup and approval flows. WeTransfer is the original web platform, where creatives share their biggest files. Terms of Service: https://wetransfer.com/legal/terms Privacy policy: https://wetransfer.com/legal/privacy

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For many years, I have struggled with different applications in transferring videos. Some that compress the file and compromise its final quality. Thus far I am loving this application – we have used it now for slightly over a week and all of our finished products are crystal clear in addition to remaining high-quality. we also love the ability to encrypt video with a password for those that will end up receiving and downloading it. I also am in love with the fact that we can a lot is certain timeframe before. The video itself expires. I no longer have to have tons of videos on my iPhone.

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Our review: Parents say: ( 2 ): Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. This well-acted, boldly directed psychological drama offers a bare-knuckles view of an accelerated kind of relationship decay. All I See Is You uses the idea of a happily married blind woman regaining her sight, then re-evaluating her marriage, to examine the primal fear most ...
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