I really liked this film for a myriad of reasons, but I’d like to point out just two.
This is one of the best roles I’ve seen Johnny Depp play. He’s just a natural as Eugene Smith.
The cinematography is one of the standouts in Minamata. It’d be almost ironic if a film that has photography as one of its central themes had an average camera work, but Benoît Delhomme does an amazing job, just like he had done in At Eternity’s Gate.
Sometimes, Minamata borders on easy sentimentalism, but the messages it conveys, and they way it conveys them, are critically important and engaging.
I really liked this film for a myriad of reasons, but I’d like to point out just two.
This is one of the best roles I’ve seen Johnny Depp play. He’s just a natural as Eugene Smith.
The cinematography is one of the standouts in Minamata. It’d be almost ironic if a film that has photography as one of its central themes had an average camera work, but Benoît Delhomme does an amazing job, just like he had done in At Eternity’s Gate.
Sometimes, Minamata borders on easy sentimentalism, but the messages it conveys, and they way it conveys them, are critically important and engaging.