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Girls Will Be Girls 2024
I have never watched Indian Cinema like this before. So precise, so understated, so well acted, so reminiscent of parts of my own Indian childhood, and yet so fresh, so breathtakingly aching. Just incredibly happy we get to see this happen and that film making like this is still possible in today’s India.
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Demolition 2015
Grief is neither linear nor straightforward. A sometimes messy script, but there is something honest about this film.
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The Lobster 2015
The Lobster, with its absurd premise and stilted dialogue delivery, breaks countless cinematic rules and the expectations of even a seasoned audience to become arguably one of the best movies to have been made this year.
Colin Farrell plays David, a middle-aged man whose wife has recently left him. In this dystopian world of his, single people are taken to a hotel, where they are given a chance to find themselves partners within fortyfive days, failing which they are turned…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
Location is always the deuteragonist in Martin McDonagh's films. As in 2009's In Bruges, so in Banshees of Inisherin, the environ is inseparable from the fabric of the story. The Irish west coast is gorgeous to behold. (I made a pilgrimage to Bruges in 2017. A similar pilgrimage now seems to be on the cards for all the islands that were shooting locations for the fictional Inisherin. 🤭)
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