Watching Women Talking and Unrest as a pair turned out to work well. This has been such an emotionally distended LFF. I’ve seen three, three films about violent child death, two about child sexual abuse, four involving suicide (with overlap on the child death bit), I sat next to a woman in a fancy coat who moaned and writhed and bit her fingers at every trial and tribulation of EO the donkey. I’ve cried three times. Characters are assailed by events,…
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Aftersun 2022
Moments in childhood carry a feeling you’ll never have again, except as a memory shadow of the first time you came across it. They are so specific to a sight, a journey, the humidity of the air and strength of the breeze in that second. The secret of this, though, is that feeling likely came to be only within the memory, this is why only the shadow of it can ever come close to taking you there, when the present…
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On Falling 2024
The scene where she finally gets paid and immediately buys six cakes is haunting me.
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Mickey 17 2025
Want to share more thoughts on this at some point, but put briefly it’s very disappointing to get to the back third of what was a promising start silently begging for it to end. Steven Yeun the only lead actor who didn’t ultimately become unbearable to watch.
Between this and Snowpiercer I’m tapping myself out on Bong Joon-Ho’s English language outings I think. Completely not for me.
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The 355 2022
Given the amount of trailer time star Jessica Chastain spends explaining who The 355 is (an unnamed female secret agent of George Washington’s in the American Revolution) you might hope this present day-set spy movie is about to let us in on a world of centuries-old female secret societies ripe for MacGuffin-hunting January nonsense, blunt feminist metaphors and several outstanding actors having a ball amongst the silliness.
Well, the MacGuffin and the blunt metaphors are there, but unfortunately producer Chastain…
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Holloway 2024
The bravery of the women who take part here is unquestionable, and they will have all come to this for their own reasons which I hope were satisfied - the film goes to some lengths to demonstrate they were fully informed and consenting participants. And it’s worth saying: criticisms that certain negotiations that took place on camera should have happened before filming simply don’t hold water - the comfort levels of documentary contributors change all the time, before, during, and…
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