Bunker

So I haven't seen it yet.

Al- also in Bunker, that was at Venice, Paul Dano plays a kind of version of Elon Musk.

That it doesn't say explicitly that's who he is, but it's actually a very uncanny portrayal.

I don't necessarily recommend the movie, but just h- this is a motif of the, the season, clearly.

It was, yeah, I had, it was closing.

A nice chat with Florian Zeller, who, as you say, Wendy, not on a Netflix film, but has Bunker that is around at the moment in the festival.

And he was there until closing time.

And, you know, we were sat there on the sunshine until 1pm when it was the end of the event and we had moved on.

Moving on.

Florian Zeller's Bunker, [laughs] which I saw.

Uh-oh.

Which Javier Bard-

We both saw Javier Bardem movies we should recommend.

But, uh, Florian Zeller, I have a soft spot for this man's film.

The Father, The Son, and Bunker.

I don't think they're all equal, or, and I don't think they're all perfect, but I find them interesting.

Uh, so to- today we'll talk about the first few movies that you've seen.

Um, so Elsinore, uh, La Bola Negra, Bunker, um, Ray Gun, uh, Wildwood, Prime Time, and Artificial.

So Prime Time and Artificial actually were announced later, so they're not even in, in the official kind of [laughs] Yeah.

Mm-mm.

Mm-mm.

Good.

Uh, then from Penelope Cruz to Penelope Cruz, we go to the next, which is 'Bunker.' So this one is, is very interesting actually, because it's set in, um, kind of a background of division in social class and, uh, capitalism, like excess, uh, which [laughs] kind of have a bit right now.

Like, it feels like talking about today.

Okay.

Uh, so my personal bottom, uh, movie that I saw at TIFF, honestly for me was, uh, Florian Zeller's follow-up to a disastrous sophomore film, The Son, and that was Bunker, or the film that I'm talking about now.

Uh, I had extremely low expectations, uh, with this film.

I mean, because of the fact that The Son wasn't really good.

And Florian Zeller, uh, coming from, like, his first movie, The Father, uh, I was just, like, really excited to kinda, like, see what he would've done next, um, in his, in his, uh, career.

And I think Bunker could've been that type of film to kinda, like, return to that sensibility of, uh, what I felt with The Father.

But Bunker is pretty much just a generic, uh, psychological thriller about a couple who is, uh, going through a lot of stuff in their lives, and the husband has to build a bunker for a tech, uh, billionaire.

And he's kind of trying to figure out whether or not it's the right thing to do amidst from, like, all the stuff that's happening in the world, and the wife is kind of, like, grilling the husband about it.

So I clocked in at 11 films this year, a good mix of international releases, English language releases, some small films, some films with grand award season ambitions.

So, yeah, very excited to talk about the good, the confusing, and the bunker.

Well, yeah, let's get into the bunker right away then.

Let's crawl inside of it.

So, The Bunker, it's just called Bunker, right? It's not The Bunker? Just Bunker, yeah.

It's Bunker.

Drop the the.

So put that on your radar if you're a horror fan.

I saw Bunker, not the best, but it was cool to see Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz in person.

He is a lot shorter than I thought he would be.

She's a lot taller than I thought they would be.

I thought that was weird.

Okay, wait, I'm

looking up Bunker right now.

Bunker, yeah.

Yes.

Real life couple and Oscar winners Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz star in Bunker, the third film from Florian Zeller and his first psychological thriller.

Zellers previously directed The Father, adapted from his own stage play and starring Olivia Colman and Oscar-winning Anthony Hopkins, followed by The Son, another adaptation of his own play, a family drama starring Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern.

Did you ever end up seeing The Son?

He was great in it.

So good.

In Bunker, an architect accepts a lucrative commission to construct a survival bunker for a tech billionaire.

But the moral compromises involved to begin destabilizing his 17-year marriage.