the drugs don't work in 1996 (or 2018)

Rating: 6/10 (23 January 2019)

Whenever a director decides to make a period piece I always ask myself from which place in time s/he is looking back from.
Is this movie advocating a lost time in which we were less consumed by technology or is this a rehab talk down memory lane?
If your answer is "it shouldn't matter" you chose to obviously ignore Noe's capitalized messages informing you of "universal truths" through which you should observe his film.
I couldn't shake the feeling that it had a surprisingly moralizing attitude towards itself - that was rightfully missing from his previous "crimes" (as he loves to coin it) and lacked the riveting heart and soul that kept me engaged during "Irreversible" and "enter the void".