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Youth (Spring) 2023
When I saw Youth (Spring), a documentary film about young garment-workers in China, it occurred to me that there is very little arson in this world. One would expect more. The movie follows a few members of the Chinese underclass, all around 18 to 24 years old, through their affairs and days. They work in small sweatshops on Happiness Road, in an industrial district called Zhili City. They sleep in cold-water dormitories, five or more to a room, right next…
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Priscilla 2023
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Sofia Coppola is a good first director—the kind you love in childhood and then leave behind. Her movies are beautiful objects, with soft light, stylish soundtracks, and small scenes you can reenact in your own less beautiful life. She taught my generation how to look moodily out of car windows, and gave us the right songs (Air, Phoenix, Aphex Twin) to listen to in bathtubs. Her movies are easy. They do not test your attention span. I can’t think of…
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Diary of a Country Priest 1951
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It is strange to charge a work by Robert Bresson with a lack of restraint, but such is the case with his first movies. The Diary of a Country Priest—for all its strength of visual composition, and the wonderfully simple dramatic set-up (a priest arrives at his newly assigned parish)—falls now and then into overwrought scenes. Bresson was still finding his way as a director; the Diary is not an early work, exactly, but it belongs to his period of…
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