Tenet

Christopher Nolan is even more distant and colder to his characters this time around than usual; on the other hand, he once again manages a narrative ultra mindfuck that playfully puts the rest of the blockbuster production in the deepest pocket. It's remains in question how much of Tenet is actually watchable, because unlike Inception, we don't get any downright "explanatory" scenes followed by some refreshing understanding. The film is terribly self-focused, but it's so beautifully purely nerdy and audiovisually enchanting that it's actually impossible not to love it. Along with Memento, it's probably the least accessible Nolan when it comes to some deeper understanding of the story. Still, I’ve given both Memento and Tenet 5 stars, because I obviously enjoy the hell out of their incomprehensibility. (03.09.2020)

A truly exhausting film that demands your full attention throughout its whole runtime, because once you tune out for even a single moment, you have virtually no chance of getting back on the same wavelength with Nolan, and the rest of your experience will get drowned out by the deafening noise and convolutedness of the plot. I must admit that the first time I watched it, I felt almost physically exhausted and was not far from getting lost in the plot. But in that mind-blowing moment, as the main character begins to understand and use his ability to change the flow of time, everything suddenly starts to fall into place, and it is one hell of a ride. Tenet is indeed Nolan's most ambitious film, and like all his other films, it will be subjected to a variety of, more or less justified, criticism. But as always, it is the only really must-see film of the year whose technical side, storytelling, and the way it is filmed relegates the rest of the Hollywood production to second-class status. (30.08.2020)