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Continue reading →: Review: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the WorldDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is a brazenly iconoclastic political manifesto made by someone who really hates Romanian traffic. It’s a significant improvement from Radu Jude’s previous Golden Bear winning Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn for being a lot less self-indulgent and having a more fluid…
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Continue reading →: The Hypnotic Nightmare of Evil Does Not ExistsThroughout his directing career, Ryusuke Hamaguchi always has an interest in grasping the murk between pretension and authentic human emotions. In Asako I&II, he asks the same actor to portray behaviourally opposite love interests to muffle the relationship between unattainable love and mundane love. In Wheel of Fortune of Fantasy, human connections…
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Continue reading →: In theatres: Civil WarAlex Garland, like the war photographers he presents in Civil War, is deeply invested and allured by crafting horrifying images. Like them, 1 out of every 30 images he pumps out is amazing (the other 29 not so much), and perhaps this muffled version of the United States aptly reflects the…
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Continue reading →: Thoughts on The SettlersThe Settlers, Chile’s submission for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards, is a gruesome look at the country’s bloody foundation through gnarly, picturesque landscapes and the disturbed minds that wandered through them. It is a revisionist western that reflects on its country’s hideous ways of sanitizing its history…
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Continue reading →: The ArtistThe Artist has exactly one trick up its sleeve, it’s a silent film in 2011, and it plays it plainly and uninventively. From my shamefully limited experience watching silent classics, the film feels incredibly tamed and derivative when compared to those. The physical performances lacks a kinetic rhythm and the actors…
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Continue reading →: Retro-Review: The Man Who Wasn’t ThereDespite its pastiche of the old Hollywood noirs, the themes of The Man Who Wasn’t There is in the vicinity with the middle-life crisis films prominent during the late 90s to early 00s. I was reminded a lot of American Beauty through the premise of a middle-aged man longing for new meanings within a…
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Continue reading →: Review: Showing UpIt’s therapeutic watching Michelle Williams gently tender her sculptures, or any artist in the film for that matter. What a joy it is to observe people work. The film opens with design sketches, ends with a finished gallery, and is filled with interstitial sequences of individuals working on their niche…
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