Spectacular to see, and way less fun to watch. The paintings and movement and music make for an onscreen buffet feast, but the treatment of the story is a long, flat cringe - a shirtless cabbage party.
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Silsila 1981
A bit silly of me not to have watched Yash Chopra with some intentionality before. What with all the fabric, the movie stars, even more pregnancies...
Chopra and Sirk on the big screen together is the stovetop on full blast and all the pots are furiously boiling over.
Adding Aaditya's film notes for future ref:"Introduction by series programmer Aaditya Aggarwal.
Screening will include a 15-minute intermission.
Yash Chopra’s controversially sympathetic portrait of marital infidelity was a box-office flop.…
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Four Daughters 2023
This hurt so much - from its own pain but also from how vastly creative and intelligent it was. It has some of the most innovative storytelling and Ben Hania's form is spectacular...and from somewhere else where I'm dying to explore.
It was the performances of Eya and Tayssir (non-actors) that will leave me with permanent flesh dents. This is the best documentary film I have ever seen.
How I love to watch a woman.
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