I've been hesitating to ask this, because I know how much one of the stars is disliked by many here, but has anyone else seen Mirror, Mirror? Anyone at all? I just... I kind of liked it. Lily Collins was incredibly appealing and adorable, and the writing was never great but was at least solidly adequate, and OH GOD the sets and costumes. It was such a glorious, lush, deliciously over the top design-porn fest, and it's killing me that I can't find one other person to gasp and squee over it with. I'm at the point where, if I had any money, I'd happily bribe any Buffista with a love of the visually ornate and two hours to spare to see it just so we could talk about it afterwards.

Anyone? Anyone at all? I will *totally* go hunt down the mostly-mediocre-but-with-one-glorious-element movie of anyone else's choice to squee about it with them in return.

Sara saw it, and said she loved it, but she went with friends, JZ.

Does the Wicked Queen unhinge her jaw and eat her stepdaughter whole in this one?

I saw Damsels in Distress last fall at a film fest. I really enjoyed it. (I have to confess that I have never seen any other Stillman films.) The style really reminded me of 90s indie movies.

Does the Wicked Queen unhinge her jaw and eat her stepdaughter whole in this one?

She does not. But she wears some seriously fucking awesome dresses, and she goes through the mirror a couple of times and ends up in... something I can't describe without both spoiling it and making it sound bleak and bare and uninteresting, because it's made to be seen, not described. It's just cold and creepy and gives you the same sort of feeling as some Miyazaki movies, where the mundane and supernatural worlds intersect and you get brief little glimpses of other worlds that you realize must be real worlds -- you get a few-seconds-long flash of something that's so detailed and so fully realized that you can imagine a whole complex history behind it, even if the filmmaker never explores it or mentions it again.

It's just a very visually full world. But everyone's jaw stays firmly hinged in place.

I saw Damsels in Distress last fall at a film fest. I really enjoyed it. (I have to confess that I have never seen any other Stillman films.) The style really reminded me of 90s indie movies.

Appropriate since the last time he made a movie was in the 90s, and he was a very indie director. I highly recommend all of three of his movies, but especially Barcelona.

Yes, that's my favorite of the three, too.

Huh. I wonder if it's dudes vs. girls thing. I enjoyed Barcelona but it was easily my least favourite of the three, and I think it's because it's all from the POV of the boys. The women in that movie are mostly cyphers.

Barcelona is my preferred Stillman.

Barcelona is probably my favorite, if only for that "what's that thing, above the subtext" line.