There are many who said that Shawn Of The Dead was a great movie and a great comedy. I found it a terrible film, ridiculous, boring and without a reason of existence. For me Edgar Wright showed his incredible talent with this film over here. This is the movie that showed that this is a filmmaker that really loves cinema and has the impeccable style to make it shine. Last Night In Soho might be a psychological horror movie, but in reality is an absolutely astonishing exercise in style in cinema. It has been years since I last saw a movie that has so much finesse. The costumes, the soundtrack, the locations, the production design are working in such a fascinating way that you really find yourself so taken by them, that you almost forget the story of the film. A 60s inspired movie, a movie that loves the smell of that decade and what better from London in the fucking 60s I may say. That's definitely a movie that is totally and 100% visual. It doesn't simply tell a story, it pictures a story, it pictures a feeling, it pictures a whole era.
Edgar Wright proves with that movie, that he is a true lover of cinema, a true worshipper of fashion and style and a true wanderer in pursuit of the beautiful and the elegant. And of course, I am not saying that the story of the movie is a bad story, but what I am trying to say is that this story wouldn't shine as it does if it was made by another filmmaker, with another filmic style. It's this absolutely amazing aura that Edgar brings to the movie, that from the first scene and the first song, you say to yourself "I am in good fucking hands this time". I don't know if Edgar returns to the comedies that he made previously, I hope he doesn't, because in that type of cinema, the pure genre cinema, I can say, that he is a grandmaster. A master of allure, a master of stylish compositions and a master of pure artistic expression in the way that we love to see, in the way that should artistic expression be.
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