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I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020
Kaufman delivers something as immense as Everywhere at the End of Time.
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie 2019
I can sincerely say that I enjoyed the closing credits more than I did the movie, and am sincerely sorry about that.
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To Take A Wife 2004
In the Mood for Love, Israeli style.
this isn't the typical feminist tale of the oppressed woman, Viviane is not weak, she emanates power. she talks back, she hits her husband, she defies him in every thing and condemns his silence. she does all that, because in truth she's powerless. she does all that because she's caged. a prisoner to this dead marriage (perhaps it never even lived) just like Eliyahu is the prisoner of his perfectly callous nature, Ronit…
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002
I. Dogs Have No Hell: the second time I watch an Aki Kaurismäki, with his very apparently choreographed performers and engineered camera movements invoking a very old cinema, and adding his own thing to it: unfathomable script. I don't know what is this or what is its relation to the theme of "time".
II. Lifeline: is probably my favourite segment of the Trumpet compilation, Víctor Erice made a heavily emotional segment on the passage of time, by simply observing different…
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