Review of Licorice Pizza (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 14 Aug 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

In high school the highly acclaimed PTA must have been struck by the subsection "Herrschaft und Knechtschaft" ("Lordship and Bondage", "master-slave") of hegelian "Phenomenology" to compulsively direct films that always focus on human relationships as relations of force, oppression and prevarication. "Licorice Pizza" is the adolescent variant of "Phantom Thread" (2017) and the television one of "Boogie Nights" (1997): a quarter of a century entirely dedicated to a concept formulated in 1807 and to which the equally acclaimed trusty Jonny Greenwood contributes. "Over the course of his career, he has received eleven Academy Award nominations, including three for Best Director without ever winning it, making him the living director with the most nominations for the statuette without any victory." Really incomprehensible.