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Mirror 1975
Heavenly. I loved it so much. I read it that the film superimposed the destinies of the son and the father by having the same actress play the mother and a woman in the son’s grown life, but maybe I misread: the woman in the younger couple could have been the son’s parents when young. If this is not a deliberate blurring it works as a suggestion, or a shadow.
One loveliness: the natural world in the early countryside scenes…
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Hit Man 2023
This movie is charming and beautifully written and well made, and its burlesque aspect is wonderfully executed by Glen Powell, and I did like the element of how the romantic couple found themselves completely compatible, and not just sexually, without reference to any details about their lives. But on its own terms one must point out its shallowness: Gary interprets his experience through philosophy and psychology, to his students, as leading up to an appeal to live as your full…
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Dovlatov 2018
Having settled on the through-the-keyhole vision of art as true to Dovlatov’s spirit, it created a work of art in that vein. A rare work to register the gravity of art in the experience of artists without sentimentalizing it. A detail: loved the colors. Both drab and luminous, battered and warm.
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The Eternal Daughter 2022
"The Shining" for girls!
At one point Tilda Swinton, mère, says, "This place is full of ..." and you are waiting to hear, ghosts, and she says, "...memories."
The thing I found the most fascinating about this movie is that Tilda Swinton’s performance as the mother was precisely the act of imaginative empathy —or presumption—that her character as the travelling companion, the filmmaker daughter, was struggling with. A tight little parable about art and love and the tissue between the two. Also enjoyably spooky and atmospheric.
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