Sophisticated and simple, mechanical and spiritual, explosive and calm, icy and burning: this is the controversial work of Christopher Nolan, now firmly established in legend. Tenet. Pure, crystalline cinematic art, propped up by the post-postmodern zeitgeist of hypertechnological revolution. At the cinema, after what was for me a cathartic and wild multisensory experience, I exclaimed: “This film is ferociously insane.”
P.S. “Controversial,” to say the least. I foresee storms over such a definition.
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