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  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • In the Realm of the Senses
  • India Song
  • Melancholia

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  • Anastasia

    ★★

  • Anna Karenina

    ★★★½

  • War and Peace

    ★★★★

  • Licorice Pizza

    ★★★

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  • Anastasia

    Anastasia

    ★★

    The trauma of uncertain past and how to deal with it

    In addition to the pro-aristocratic romantic portrayal of the Romanovs and all the inaccurate historical depictions of the post-revolution Russia, I'd argue that the film does, however, raise an intriguing question regarding the psychoanalytical problem of identity. That is to say, the emphasis on the tragic history of the Romanovs at the beginning of the narrative not only establishes the film's central role in the ensuing historiopolitical issue, but…

  • Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    ★★★½

    Infidelity and the feminine "No!"

    Although Anna Karenina has undoubtedly been a significant work in Tolstoy's literary repertoire, I propose, however, that it has been inadequately assessed as a profound exploration of feminist political ideologies. This analysis aims not to address the legitimacy of politically correct approaches to gender representation but rather to demonstrate, through Lacanian threory, how the film puts into question the ontological gap between female desire and the demands placed on women by heteropatriarchal society.

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  • The Paradise of Thorns

    The Paradise of Thorns

    ★★½

    Gay rights and the normativisation of queer otherness

    Of course, the legalisation of gay marriage is without a doubt a considerable victory for the queer movement, but the point that this celebration totally misses is that marriage—and rights-based models in general—not only cannot solve structural problems such as sexism, racism, homophobia, or poverty, but only represents a narrow political agenda that merely reproduces the core values of heteronormative society, including its privileging of one relational modality over all others. Do…

  • The Last 10 Years

    The Last 10 Years

    ★★

    the only good thing about this movie is that we get to see Nana Komatsu doing what she does best, making people cry.