SummaryA heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity. [Neon]
SummaryA heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity. [Neon]
You sense the messier aesthetics of Katz's mumblecore origins have fallen away to reveal a born alchemist of story and imagery — in its arresting visual tour of L.A.'s groovy neighborhoods and rich hideaways, Gemini captures a secret, abiding and even menacing melancholy behind its oft-regarded surfaces.
Gemini has a breezy lethargy and the characters always look on the brink of sleep. With a cobalt and ultraviolet color scheme and a jazzy score, the movie seems to be cast in the dreariness of Hollywood dreams.
There’s plenty of Lynch-light in dark interiors and empty staircases as Katz’s portrait of hipster La La Land winds through familiar territory. Gemini may not show too much that’s novel about that noir world, but we see new strengths in its lead actress.
The faults of Gemini are in its screenplay, and Katz’s inability to sustain interesting character dynamics and maintain a consistent narrative. As a director, Gemini is easily Katz’s most confident outing to date.
It is such a soul-killing exercise in narcissism — and not a very smart thriller, either — that yeah, you can buy into the notion that Tinseltown is a total drag.
A little overrated, I think. A too linear movie with no dark edges. Slow and more visual than stuff on the inside. It could be a telefilm with less budget. "Intriguing gem", are you kidding?
Lots of atmosphere, little substance. A common crime that tends to have disappointing results because its script is naturally unstable.
The build-up was superior than the resolution, which was unsatisfying to say the least, and the performances are just average.
It's nothing that results in a total failure, but I didn't find it worthy of much attention either.
Not that bad, but pretty bland and uninteresting. The story progresses slowly and quite predictably to the point of being somewhat boring. The jump scares don't work, the music is poorly chosen, the story is lazily written and the ending is an even bigger letdown. While visually well made, there's no spark to this movie that makes it really worth seeing.