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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 2024
Bleak in a very understated way. Also more emotionally rich than I think people will give credit, given how political its premise is. All the women gathered by the funeral demand that Shula weep to express her mourning of uncle Fred. Not as a means to exorcise her supposed grief but to pledge allegiance to custom, as if through collective ritual they can trick themselves into believing he was ever worth missing. When Shula does break down it's because she…
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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell 2008
Pretty standard doc for a very otherworldly subject, though I wouldn't prefer it any other way. I liked hearing the songs and how over the course of the doc they grasp with greater returns at some sense of the beyond. I found it very kind the way they wrap Russell's love for the stripped-down with the simplicity of his home in Iowa. The story his dad tells about his last words, "Are you sure?", was extremely touching.
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Trás-os-Montes 1976
Magnificent how the dreaming taking place belongs to no one but the land itself. The long pauses on empty space evoke this sense of latent hypnogogia. A rounded piece of art where involuntary memories all draw back to the unified field of landscape. The artifactual quality of the film enhances this sense of experiencing a perfectly contained, spherical object.
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The Northman 2022
good but too many sweat lodge scenes. one or two sweat lodge scenes and that’s enough—fine—but i felt like there were like eight sweat lodge scenes in this
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