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The Worst Person in the World 2021
The tableau scene blew me away. She starts tentatively, scared to even tread the path she had set in motion. She builds momentum as the day wakes up around her (totally unempathetic of the bad backs everyone will have after a full day of paralysis), the smile on her face growing at the same rate as her pace. It's impossible to not start mentally running with her, which is where the genius of the scene lies in the undercurrent of…
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Beau Travail 1999
Throughout the film you are wondering what it's all for. You watch them doing their drills, at first easily recognisable at face value, then later more intricate and otherworldly; picking apart the concept of loosing oneself to a higher power. As they get sillier, any perception of a means to an end fades away until the tools have shed their humanesque chrysalis. The aggressive hugging drill has the taste of a word said too many times, to the point where…
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Legally Blonde 2001
Every time I've watched this over the last decade the rating has gone up. Legally Blonde is a certified banger. We forced our 10 year old little brother to watch this, and the sheer level of cringe/disgust on his face was truly unprecedented. I quote "this movie is so bad". I'm looking forward to showing this to him several more times in the years to come.
The film manages to be funny in a really genuine way, that doesn't really…
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The Old Man and the Sea 1999
This is one of the most beautiful things ever set to film. Seeing a high quality print of it for the first time, the utter mastery of it really hit home. The individuality of each droplet of water as it splits off of the oar. The streaks of pinpoint stars bouncing off of pulsating jellyfish as sky meets sea. The vibration of aggression slashed across the canvas in the man's desperation at the height of his folly. It is not…
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Landscape in the Mist 1988
This film is achingly captivating.
It empathises with my inner state of being on so many levels. The idea of chasing after a lost dream with no end, blind to anything of the contrary. As long as the journey continues the journey cannot fail. A sense of belonging wherever one lands, without ever feeling at home.
As a Greek who grew up in England, I've always felt like I'm being pulled in many directions at once; kept In place only by the opposing forces. Landscape in the Wind is that feeling.
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Anora 2024
It almost feels like the entire film served as emotional and contextual buildup to the last 5 minutes in Igor's Grandma's car. The narrative and themes it wants to get across are laid out in a self-contained vignette that stands alone, but would mean nothing without the preceding 2 hours. The tempo is unrelenting as beat gives way to subsequent beat, each one emotionally solidifying the previous 20 minutes, then the next and the next.
With the final throb Anora…
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