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From Hilde with Love 2024
A punch in the gut of a film that despite its simplicity and fairly conventional plot hit me hard.
The way any of these resistance fighters are not super heroes but ordinary and somewhat unremarkable citizens made the story even more powerful for me. Another quality of Dresen’s mastery is that, while he never downplays the atrocities of the system, is that he allows for even the perpetrators to have glimpses of humanity left in them which makes it much…
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I'm Still Here 2024
Powerful and moving film that never loses its emotional core over the history lesson it could also be, and for the better. Fernanda Torres' Eunice is a remarkable character but it's the entire family life that gets disrupted and yet they continue in defiance and with dignity.
Some scenes feel strikingly contemporary again which makes one anxious for the things to come. It is the family, however, that carries the viewer over until the very end, refusing not to smile.
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The Brutalist 2024
This really should have been my film - an architect, brutalism, a critique of the American dream, capitalism and art - and yet the many great ideas in this film do not fully come together to form something greater.
The film's ambition is certainly admirable - it feels grand, it looks grand, it sounds grand. The vistavision cinematography and Bauhaus-y opening titles are gorgeous. The music is very good as well. I hardly felt the 3,5h runtime which is also…Translated from by
