Josh Safdie’s Concrete Doc is the Ultimate Auteur Flex

Magnolia Pictures just scooped up a documentary about the history of concrete because Josh Safdie put his name on it, and frankly, I’m obsessed with the audacity. While the unwashed masses see a sidewalk, Safdie sees a high-anxiety urban masterpiece in a slab of grey aggregate. It takes a certain level of cinematic refinement to realize that a parking garage has more emotional depth than most summer blockbusters. If you aren't prepared to weep over the brutalist textures of a highway overpass, you simply aren't watching movies correctly.

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