We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022)
Having watching Jane Schoenbrun's We're All Going to the World's Fair it is almost impossible to say quite what I have watched. My initial comments on Shudder were condescending, faintly praising the director doing something other than a slasher clone. There's an implied criticism in that, suggesting (not too far below the surface) that what ever they did they did not do it terribly well. And I imagine a lot of people watching We're All Going to the World's Fair would have left it at that. At best, a sporadically interesting attempt at micro-budget film-making. At worst, a near unwatchable pretentious mess. But thinking about the film again as I tried to write this review, I found myself feeling much more positive and intrigued, about the film itself. Its refusal to give a conventional narrative or establish a diegetic reality with observable rules prompted an intellectual response and forced me to either reject the project altogether (as I suspect m...