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June Night 1940
Reminiscent of "A Woman's Face," but with a more morally dubious ending. Ingrid Bergman is impossible to take one's eyes from.
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Gimme Shelter 1986
Not to be confused with the documentary of the same name. This is not about the Rolling Stones at Altamont. It is about a modern (1986) Japanese family torn to shreds by their own insatiable appetites.
The always entertaining Hisayasu Sato's punked out take on the collapse of the Japanese nuclear family. Or should I say "post-nuclear" family. A tender tale of a teenage girl's sexual awakening replete with milk guzzling, eyeball licking, used tampons, incestual rape, rape by foreign object, razor blade swallowing, sadism, suicide and, yes, murder. Are you happy now?
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The Longest Night 2020
This based on the real case of a serial rapist in the city of Cordoba, Argentina who was linked to 93 rapes (but the real figure may be two or three times higher). It is a true crime drama, but what makes it so effective is the way it is told. Not strictly chronologically. The opening jumps back and forth between his abduction and assault of multiple women in each stage of his modus operandi. We see woman after woman…
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Vision Quest 1985
One of the best high school wrestling coming-of-age movies ever. Of course that's a really limited genre.
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