Slow pace, luminous and bitter, the space to breathe but always too little air... Really the gay spleen from that era.
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Asian women, fantasy women 2008
Disgusting. There are too many bad things to say for each minute of film. The desire to understand and to dive into this subject that drives the director, as a person being concerned, may be well-intentioned, but it is executed in an eminently clumsy and confused manner.
Her process not only fails to bring a single second of consistent critique or an ounce of antiracism, but turns out to be just a series of interviews with some of the most…
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Navigators 2022
One of those research-built films that doesn't forget the pleasures of the cinematic experience. 'Navigators' takes us aboard a dynamic voyage cradled by reworked vintage tunes, slowed and fragmented Keaton films, words from Alexander Berkman's and Emma Goldman's logs and other countless documents so generously delivered as the reels spin. On this double-screen cruise, from which emerge scope fragments, Noah Teichner brings back essential and yet barely known lines of anarchism and modern history. With a vibrant passion, he makes…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
One last tale, from the weakened hand, perhaps Miyazaki's most sincere or direct film, perhaps his finest gesture. I would say that understanding why he couldn't resign himself to retirement and had to tell us another story in this very desperate world may be a big part of understanding this film.
The film might be both one of his less clear scenarios and one of his clearest messages. He knows he's such an imperfect person, not at all like the…
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