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- 2022
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2022
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Suze (Andrea Riseborough) and Arthur (Harry Melling) live an outwardly traditional lifestyle as the Lower East Side’s most bohemian Eisenhower-era couple. The pair’s cage is rattled when they encounter a gang of sadistic, leather-clad greasers known as The Young Gents. Suze and Arthur’s initial thrust of fear evolves into confusion of th...
Directed By: Amanda Kramer
Written By: Noel David Taylor, Amanda Kramer
- 2022
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2022
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 35 m
Please Baby Please
65
5.1
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Summary Suze (Andrea Riseborough) and Arthur (Harry Melling) live an outwardly traditional lifestyle as the Lower East Side’s most bohemian Eisenhower-era couple. The pair’s cage is rattled when they encounter a gang of sadistic, leather-clad greasers known as The Young Gents. Suze and Arthur’s initial thrust of fear evolves into confusion of th...
Directed By: Amanda Kramer
Written By: Noel David Taylor, Amanda Kramer
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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61% Positive
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39% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
65
61% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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In politics and the media, opportunistic hate-mongers whip up bigotry against gender non-conformity, while everyone in contemporary cinema is beautiful but no one is horny. In this context, Please Baby Please is a vision inspired by the past, but is undoubtedly a document of the present.
Kramer sketches out a feverish queer manifesto on gender that feels both novel and familiar.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
5.1
43% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
5.1
43% Positive
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29% Mixed
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I’m writing this review after my 5th (maybe even 6th) viewing of this movie. I absolutely adore this movie. It is so thoroughly, delightfully **** in every sense of the word. It so perfectly blends the cinematic influences it's drawing from (obviously Anger and Fassbinder, but also cult camp classics like "Absolutely Beginners" and "Crimes of Passion") while also being utterly singular. Andre Riseborough has been getting a lot of the attention for this movie, and she’s great in it, but Harry Melling is absolutely killing it in this film. He so inhabits Arthur’s internal struggles with his masculinity and sexuality in a way that feels startlingly authentic. The final dance sequence is my favorite moment from a movie in the past few years. Absolute **** joy personified.
This movie is "not for everyone," but what percentage of cinema really is "for" anyone?
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Uma deliciosa história sobre romance que abusa da fotografia e do simbolismo para nos trazer verdades sobre relacionamentos, sem aquela típica melosidade.
É um filme de baixo orçamento, então os números musicais ficaram limitados, aliás, nem tem o ar de comédia. Ao centrar no casal que vive em um prédio suburbano, eles interagem com gangues, com a vizinha, e aí estão expostos ao submundo da violência, do medo, da insegurança, e também dos desejos. É como revisitar nossos velhos sentimentos, percebendo que eles sempre afloram no contato com o próximo.
Algumas danças sensuais são expostas, e cortes para cenas em que á diálogos sempre provocativos e metafóricos, sem um enredo linear.
Aos poucos o casal vai vendo que a humanidade aflora a tal ponto de vermos incestos ou desejos de pertencimento ao submundo, e genialmente nada há aqui de moralismo. Eu esperava que fosse mais musical, afinal, a abertura e o final fazem parecer assim, mas de todo o modo o filme da conta de questionar nossos papéis sociais ligada a uma tradição esquemática a aprisionada, ainda que falte entre o início e seu fim um substrato e um equilíbrio maior entre os personagens secundários (a vizinha por exemplo ficou meio esquecida).
Consegue discutir a questão das classes, das gangues, da ****, do amor em um relacionamento livre, enfim, enfim uma série de temas que, se por um lado enriquece seu arcabouço, por outro não é explorado a fundo.
Eu particularmente gostei da fotografia, conferiu personalidade à obra. Talvez pelo ar não realista possa desagradar por quem prefere um cinema mais direto. As cenas sensuais não são eróticas, as críticas são veladas, o ar é sempre misterioso. Um filme diferente, e por isso mesmo vale a pena a conferida.
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Of those who will seek this out, they’re either going to really dig it or just absolutely loathe it. There is no middle ground here, but Riseborough’s performance deserves to be seen by everyone.
The film’s ironic tone largely defangs the transgressive films it parodies, but Kramer does broaden the scope of the queer leather canon.
It’s not for everyone. Please Baby Please often forgets that it’s a musical, and the action is increasingly chaotic.
Please Baby Please may pay homage to queer aesthetics, but it fails to make any coherent points about gender or sexuality.
The film feels over-determined and self-satisfied.
'Please Baby Please' is as if David Lynch and John Waters had directed 'West Side Story.' This **** musical brings us closer to the fluidity of sexual identity through the experiences of a couple who, after a violent event, comes into conflict with what they have tried to hide all their lives. Harry Melling and Andrea Riseborough deserve all the respect for being part of such a risky and unconventional project. Amanda Kramer's direction is the foundation of the lead's good performances and dance steps. She also builds a relevant story about what it means to struggle with something you are not — which also has something to say about toxic masculinity and social pressure —. The production design, which uses a lot of theatrics for greater effect, also deserves special mention. If there is anything to be criticized, it would be the lack of more bombastic musical numbers and Karl Glusman's character development, who, despite being the breaking point for both leads, we never really got to know him; and the screenplay also has some dialogues that feel way too didactic. Either way, it's great to see 'Please Baby Please' embrace its visual influences to tackle a current topic.
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It's a pleasure to see an actress like Andrea Riseborough give her all to any role, but her performance doesn't necessarily mean her films are good and in the case of Please Baby Please I found myself alienated on more than one occasion with nothing the plot had to offer really pulling me out of that stupor.
It's a curiosity that appeals more for its style than for what it offers as entertainment.
It is similar to what happened with To Leslie, which is a much better movie than this one.
Andrea Riseborough is great, but the films themselves are absolutely trivial.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company
Rivulet Media,
Silver Bullet Entertainment
Release Date Oct 28, 2022
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
L.A. Outfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
