Billy Crudup plays the estranged son of a man with a vivid imagination, one who tells the story of his life on his deathbed. Tim Burton released one of the most acclaimed films of his career with his 2003 fantasy drama starring Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney. See it before someone recommends it to you.
It’s a delicate, beautiful film that plays like a romance, ghost story, and study of inequality all at the same time. Mati Diop’s directorial debut is a tender, mesmerizing study of life on the coast of Senegal, where men often venture out for more prosperous shores, leaving the women behind. Blending Conrad’s Heart of Darkness with the recent wounds of the Vietnam War, Coppola barely survived production to deliver a movie that deserves to be mentioned with the best Vietnam flicks of all time. The journey to find Colonel Kurtz plays out like a fever dream, a trip into the violent soul of man. Francis Ford Coppola went into the jungles, nearly lost his mind, and came back with a war movie masterpiece, one of the most quoted and cited combat films ever made.
