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Ieoh Island 1977
What the sea takes, what the sea gives back. The overwrought acting feels ridiculous until the final ritual.
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The People's Joker 2022
Funny and earnest are two sides of the same bifurcated Kamala face! I laughed, I got punched in the gut, I loved every bit of animation and stitching-together and blowing-apart of story. The ideal film to see in a packed cinema. Suicide Cop, can I get your autograph–
Q&A over zoom at the end, which Vera finished by showing us her cat (black, eyes big and round, perfect, 10/10). Loved her talking about making art the audience doesn't know they…
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 1998
"A mundane yob transformed into an archangel." A selfish subjectivity, picking up another man like a wrecking ball to be beaten by him in bed but not attending to how he wrecks himself. You've got to laugh or cry, don't you! Cry, then. Laugh. A gorgeously horrid film, scored to spearing perfection by Ryuichi Sakamoto, suffused with all the violence of class and art. Daniel Craig with a belt in one hand, fag in the other. Fag underneath him.
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