Hooptober 11.0 – Twixt (2011)
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2024
What a beautiful, messy, sloppy charmer of a film. ON the one hand, I can see what both the average movie goer – even the casual Coppola fan – would be put off by Twixt, the maestro’s 2011 “return” to horror. I can also see how those fans who loved his adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula would watch this and cry foul. But my viewing found something deeply personal, deeply indebted to Coppola’s influences and preoccupations, and with his “Authentic Cut” retitled to its original B’Twixt Now and Sunrise we get a late highlight from a man who hasn’t yet quit trying to be innovative and singular with his artistic vision.
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