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Cuckoo 2024
While Gretchen wishes to go backwards, Alma blindly stands at the precipice of moving forwards, into a territory which is entirely unknown to them all.
I loved the polarized demonstration of each characters navigation through the story. Each faced with themes of inheritance, belonging, self declaration vs natural subjection— Alma and Gretchen stood with their backs to one another while they grappled with the only thing uniting them, the present moment.Repetition and pattern were impressively developed themes, presenting not…
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Nosferatu 2024
Robert Eggers is a hero to me as a New Hampshire native. I have the utmost respect for his treatment of folklore and honesty of the material. Even so, I was not prepared for how nuanced Eggers’ Count Orlock would be.
For a character who describes himself as simply “appetite”, there was an impressive amount of cultural and historical context packed into his limited lines.
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Poor Things 2023
I have never seen a film with such a rich visual story as Poor Things. Production designers James Price and Shona Heath are brilliant, Heath being a former collaborator of Tim Walker whose visual vocabulary was exciting to see play out. Frankenstein elements are superficial but intentionally so, and the same asynchrony of Frankensteins monsters patchwork skin reads Dr. Godwin’s London residence. French baroque moldings are plastered over like the walls of an Italian palazzo, then treated with a pastoral…
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The Village 2004
This movie is better watched in hindsight.
The lifestyle of the Village, erected around what appeared to be a mix of contemporary notes with pseudo-traditional values, evoked a subtle dissonance I couldn’t quite put my thumb on. Initially I suspected it to be a sense of unrest that would later mount into the core horror of the movie, but it actually felt misplaced overall. The architecture of the homes was neither Colonial nor Shaker, rather more Prairie-style with a bit…Translated from by
