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Cold Meridian (Peter Strickland, 2020)
🕑 Added 2020-12-11 20:11:18 +0000 UTC
I have no interest in ASMR. Not only do I find the videos boring; the sound stuff doesn't work on me. I wonder if avant-garde film has inured me to this response, since hearing whispery noises or seeing slow, repetitive actions is not a notable phenomenon for me, and ASMR presumes that such stimuli are a rupture from one's usual audiovisual input.
So anyway, I'm not the audience for this. But Strickland does have a way with control, pushing things into a presumably erotic zone while emphasizing one's inability to break free into orgasmic pleasure. (I guess he's a director of "edging.") I doubt this filmmaker could produce anything that wasn't worth watching on some level. And it was nice to see Juli Jacab from Nemes' Sunset again. But yeah, your mileage will vary on this one.
