Thread by @DrMatthewSweet

#BlackbirdMovie knocks my scepticism about auteur theory. Some films are solely the product of an individual mind.

I loved the way Michael Flatley kept looking at things. I don’t know what they were or how far away they were, but he kept looking at them. Shrewdly. Sardonically. Blackbirdly.

It is a fantastic film of you like to see rain streaming down hats, or people sliding documents down tables when they could just pass them.

Also great if you like films where people say: “we expect the prince of Albania at the end of the week as well as the mafia also on table twelve.”

And great too if you like women in cocktail dresses emoting: “I will be nicer to Kwan, moving forward.”