By the Sea

Thankfully, Jolie Pitt the director is in much better form; and as ponderous, maybe even pretentious, as some of this might be, there was never a moment where I wanted to look away from the screen.

There's something unshakable about it, and something remarkable about the fact that it exists at all.

It's a fascinating experiment, and proof that Jolie truly has directorial chops and an extraordinary eye for imagery.

At its core the film is melancholic and even unsettling, examining ideas of gaze, fidelity and possession, grief and even vanity itself.