Synopsis
It's only a matter of time.
A family on a tropical holiday discovers that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Old
2021 Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
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Gael García Bernal Vicky Krieps Rufus Sewell Alex Wolff Thomasin McKenzie Abbey Lee Nikki Amuka-Bird Ken Leung Eliza Scanlen Aaron Pierre Embeth Davidtz Emun Elliott Alexa Swinton Gustaf Hammarsten Kathleen Chalfant Francesca Eastwood Nolan River Luca Faustino Rodriguez Mikaya Fisher Kailen Jude M. Night Shyamalan Matthew Shear Daniel Ison Jeffrey Holsman Margaux Da Silva John Twohy Kylie Begley
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Alternative Titles
OLD, Старое, Čas
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lets go to the beach-each lets go change our age
honestly the comedy of year, feels like every member of the cast was given a different interpretation of what the beach actually does mentally and physically. expecting a drinking game to develop as a companion to the film, ‘take a shot everytime someone introduces themselves with their profession’.
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every damn kid in an M. Night movie always gotta be like: "I can excuse the supernatural, but I draw the line at my parents getting divorced"
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the real twist is that this is actually just the beach from the solar power music video
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M. Night Shyamalan's formal elegance is basically unmatched here. No one is doing it like this. Shot to shot, this is a joy to watch. Truly intelligent filmmaking. Shyamalan and DP Mike Gioulakis put some serious work into the language. Zooming in and out in the middle of a rapidly spinning dolly shot is just the tip of the iceberg. What an efficient screenplay, too. Condensing time into one 24 hour period, yet still allowing for a gradual escalation of stakes and information within the genre trappings of a thriller, all while laying the groundwork for an overtly sentimental examination of life's impermanence. The existential dread really sneaks up on you. All of the typical Shyamalan motifs are here, from mentions of Philly to his director cameo to the tortured family dynamics etc. You won't mistake Old with the work of anyone else, and that's a beautiful thing.
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some of the boldest, brashest, most deranged american filmmaking in ages. shyamalan is actively, furiously resistant to the most basic tenets of hollywood form, extrapolating his earliest tendencies (like keeping actors off-screen while they deliver dialogue to the person who's on camera) to new extremes, and coming up with startling compositions that push the subjects of a shot to the absolute edges of the frame, even of visual comprehension. this is m. night in full gonzo mode, like if the village got overclocked so hard it caught fire. i was literally bouncing coming out of the theater. there has not been a better image-maker in movies for the last twenty years than m. night shyamalan, and i honestly think this might be his best work. beyond next-level. i could not be happier right now. OLD!!!!!
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I was so into this...until. Come on nobody's taking big weird-ass swings like this except Night, and he's absolutely got the formal power to back it up. And then the last 15 minutes are complete shit that almost ruin the whole thing. Still, just on the tech craft alone, it's his best movie since THE VILLAGE.
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Life is quite literally a beach in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old,” a go-for-broke “Twilight Zone” riff about a family who find themselves trapped in a sandy enclave where time passes so fast that a six-year-old in the morning will go through puberty by lunch, and a grandmother in the first act has almost no chance of being around for the third. Borrowed from the 2010 graphic novel “Sandcastle” by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters, it’s the sort of unsettling idea that can trigger a wave of existential anxieties (and/or parental ones, which are often the same thing) just by thinking about it.
And yet Shyamalan’s very silly new movie — his best since “The Village,” but still a pale…