‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’: The love-it-or-loathe-it film of 2020
nypost.comanother film with a knotty plot out this week, this one was fun to untangle.Kaufman started taking on directing duties with 2008’s “Synecdoche, New York,” and his relative simplicity here compared to the stylings of his previous collaborators Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry allows magic moments to pop out of nowhere.He makes “Ending Things” into a screen version of the immersive off-Broadway play “Sleep No More,” whisking us into seemingly normal rooms in which otherworldly scenes hazily play out.One of the most sublime and haunting examples is modeled after the dream-ballet scene from the musical “Oklahoma!” In the movie, Broadway’s terrific Ryan Steele and New York City Ballet dancer Unity Phelan materialize in a high school hallway, and in.
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