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Date: Sunday, 22 August 2021 21:29 (UTC)I don't think it was just the likeness of the seventeenth century; I think your DNA-recognition was spot on.
So what you say here confirms it as a good choice for my next watch.
Awesome. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! I thought it held up on rewatch, too. I have turned out oddly more ambivalent about the director's sophomore feature The Lighthouse (2019), which should have been even more in my line; it's beautifully shot and performed and dense with mythological allusions, it has high-key maritime weirdness and the best mermaid I have seen on film in decades, but I just haven't wanted to revisit its equal density of toxic masculinity, which I understand was at least half the point of the exercise but I still don't enjoy sitting through as much as I enjoy a good hallucination of Proteus.