{"id":40198,"date":"2017-11-27T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=40198"},"modified":"2017-11-27T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T01:50:16","slug":"gemini-aaron-katz-2017-usa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=40198","title":{"rendered":"Gemini (Aaron Katz, 2017): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Juan Salcedo. Viewed at the 2017 AFI Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini, the quite unpredictable and amazing story of an assistant and her famous actress. I have a couple quarrels with this film except they all involve personal bias.<\/p>\n<p>For one, the soundtrack really bothers me. At first I really liked it when the title screen popped up and it gave me a positive impression of what it would be like. But then the movie moved on. I know this movie is strictly all about LA but that&#8217;s exactly what I hated about the score, it sounded much too &#8220;LA&#8221;. It felt pretentious like it was working hard to sound hip with all the hopping snares and percussive trap sounds. It annoyed me after an hour for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise the story was quite intriguing and I enjoyed that I didn&#8217;t really know what was going to happen. I also enjoyed Aaron Katz&#8217; little movie within a movie bit where he explain to the main protagonist Jill(Lola Kirke) what he would think about if he were writing a script about the same situation she was dealing with. Zoe Kravits also really messes with everyone when she decides to be an actress with a fan who obsessively kills her at the beginning right after we begin to like her. Damn actresses.<\/p>\n<p>I like LA but not enough to fully enjoy this movie because the soundtrack just bugs me. Watch the movie, you&#8217;ll probably like it, I liked aspects of it, but if you&#8217;re like me you&#8217;ll probably hate it.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/2000\/1*7aC0uL2ibm3gq-hlwg_v5w.jpeg\" width=\"325\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Juan Salcedo. Viewed at the 2017 AFI Film Festival. Gemini, the quite unpredictable and amazing story of an assistant and her famous actress. I have a couple quarrels with this film except they all involve personal bias. For one, the soundtrack really bothers me. At first I really liked it when the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2017","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/226242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}