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  Landscape in the Mist 1988

  ★★★ Watched 14 Jun 2023

  - long held takes, always moving and revealing
  - "are you afraid?" "no"
  - repititiveness of the waiting for the train shot - every day they go and wait. For the rest of the movie, it's hustling and bustling, but this shot is uncomfortably long, slowly pushing in on them as they realise no one is coming
  - the scene on the ice - the boy crying for like 2 minutes and all the stuff happening in the background

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  Fanny and Alexander 1982

  Watched 06 Jun 2023

  Beautifully lit 
  Highly realistic
  Never once do I question, criticise or cringe 
  Scenes I like 
  - When they’re using the projector and watching scenes on it 
  - Talking about the death of a mother 
  - And then the children are scared
  - Set at Christmas 

  Influenced by the world of Charles Dickens

  I also like the idea of a play within a play

  Could have a character die at the start of the film 

  Also note the contrast in the…

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  Petite Maman 2021

  Watched 01 Jun 2023

  - Long shot at the start - don’t need a flashy opening
  - Very subtle Introduction to the fact that mother has passed away
  - Wow - car trip is Kindling
  - I like the mannerism of the kid eating the apertifs
  - The subtle smile of the mother being fed food
  - Quite a dramatic cut from the mother in the car to her holding her daughter in the dark (just goes to show you can cut however you…

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  Petite Maman 2021

  Watched 02 Jun 2023

  - like opening - slow reveal of information, just when you think you know what the next room is going to be, it’s an empty room….
  - The film opens with her saying goodbye to the other elderly ladies, and then later on in the film, she reveals she's sad because she never got to say goodbye to grandma.
  - "I like to make cocoa islands then eat them all at once"
  - super sublte the entire time the kids…

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