Most movies aren’t perfect - MANDY certainly isn’t, but who needs perfection? This film is epic and that’s enough. It’s a film that leans into what it knows it does well: angry psychedelia, pure Nicolas Cage Rage, a bold retro and original soundtrack by the late Johan Johansson, and a solid method of homage with direct appropriation (to metal/rock, to all sorts of 80s films and horror canon). Tonally, it tries to strike a balance between earnest visual beauty (and emotional beauty, for Red & Mandy’s relationship) and balls to the wall demon fighting orgy. The audience I watched it with laughed a lot, at all the right moments. Personally, it was testament to me that Nicolas Cage has secured a place for himself as a truly unique artist — batshit crazy, dedicated to unbelievable emotional displays, and only the finest fringe feature films. MANDY is a great addition to that chapter, and personally I think achieves some newfound visual techniques that I hope to see bleed into mainstream. Panos Cosmatos is a director to watch.
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