MARISSA THE CINEPHILE

[Film Reviews from a Female Brain]

Darren Aronofsky

  • A Vile Disaster: THE WHALE

    The Whale is viscerally dreadful. It’s an emotional journey between a tenderhearted, obese father (Brendan Fraser) and his estranged heavy-tempered daughter (Sadie Sink) that fades into a soul crushing calamity. There are these moments where love becomes a form of healing while simultaneously it tightens the noose around the neck of self destruction. Darren Aronofsky Read more

  • Shared Despair: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

      These are trying times. We all know that and perhaps collectively we feel the despair of the simple liberties that have been stripped away from us over the passing months. Things taken for granted are no longer necessarily as easily and accessible to reach. What does this have to do with Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 Read more

  • MOTHER! and THE SACRIFICE

    First off, I’m going to start this post with Andrei Tarkovsky’s THE SACRIFICE and for those of you who have watched MOTHER! note the symmetry of the storyline. In THE SACRIFICE, the premise is about Alexander, an aging writer living with his wife in a house nearly on the outskirts of civilization are celebrating his Read more