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Broken Rage 2024
A film that plays with both narrative form and audience expectation by sometimes acting upon those expectations. Its three phases are not just an exhibition of personal nostalgia but a ridicule of today’s festival-driven filmmaking and episodic structure.
It starts with the familiar world of Kitano’s earlier works: stark, meticulous portrayals of violence within the yakuza circles. This works as a reminiscent of classic crime dramas, using traditional cinematic language—tight framing, measured pacing, and understated yet brutal action sequences. This…Translated from by -
Grand Theft Hamlet 2024
A decent attempt, but one that barely realizes the potenial of the inolved mediums. Grand Theft Hamlet flirts with cinema, theatre, and video games but never fully inhabits any of them. It leans on cinematic language without truly engaging with the mechanics and possibilities of gaming, which feels like a missed opportunity given the infinite playground of GTA. There’s a looseness to it that sometimes reads as effortless, other times as indifferent to the radical possibilities in the face of…
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024
The title encapsulates the essence of the work: A very musical composition of history. Instead of musical notes, it weaves together a rich tapestry of footage, with a montage that captures a captivating rhythm to this subtle soundtrack.
The film is a sharp yet respectful homage to jazz, with all the familiar musicians as they guide the actions like conductors leading an orchestra. As musical as it is, it harmonizes the chain reactions of history like uranium. All the great…
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Francisca 1981
Francisca is a film of hard, polished and immovable surfaces. Every frame is composed with the precision of a painting, resisting movement; something written in already existing texts. It's as if they're trapped inside a novel they cannot rewrite as much as they're trapped inside of a painting. This is cinema as artifact with little momentum to narrative and melodrama.
Francisca lives within the rigid structure of a bourgeois life that's reduced to words and gestures. José Augusto’s pursuit of…Translated from by
