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Lancelot of the Lake 1974
Story wise, it wasn’t my favorite (it’s very opaque in what it’s trying to say- need to see it again), but as usual Bresson’s shot selection, direction, and framing are insanely precise.
Some of the best images of a Bresson film in here. The first close ups of the queen, the orange lit tents during the rain, the empty forest. How does this man create such beauty from simple things? I might never know.
After seeing this one specifically, I…
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The Things You Kill 2025
“Turn off the lights.”
Wow. The first hour is a masterful, simmering mystery and just when you think you know where the film will land, it makes the bold choice to give you another hour. This second hour is a nightmare, dream, kafkaesque (excuse the word) metaphor of who you become after violence? Or who you always were?
If the film had been more typical / less courageous, it would have been ended at an hour and half but it…
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