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Grace

Favorite films

  • Possession
  • 42nd Street
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
  • The Hidden

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  • Get Out

    ★★★★★

  • A Matter of Life and Death

  • Support the Girls

  • Phantom of the Paradise

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  • The Novelist's Film

    The Novelist's Film

    ★★

    Given how much I'd enjoyed In Front Of Your Face, this is a total letdown, with all the things I find usually excusable in Hong's films rendered completely trying here (SO slow! SO much repetitive dialogue! SO many embarrasing conversations, but here I just feel embarrassed rather than being offered the levity or critique of social niceties that his films usually give). It almost made me question my enjoyment of some of his other work. I guess if you're grinding out as many films as he does some have gotta be duds, but still, disappointing.

  • In Front of Your Face

    In Front of Your Face

    ★★★★

    Hong Sang Soo being delightful, funny, charming in his placid, quiet directorial way. Compared to his other films this is positively action paced in terms of camera movement - slow zooms that had me completely surprised given his usual penchant for still mid-shots. Still, people manage to get around to drinking lots, they have awkward interactions, etc. Also different from usual is the way that usually his characters are quite un-selfaware, or don't quite understand how they themselves are operating.…

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  • My Crasy Life

    My Crasy Life

    ★★★

    An interesting but not totally successful blend of fiction and documentary, about Samoan gangs in Long Beach. As usual, the thing I like best about Gorin's films is his tangible desperation to be part of a group he can't be part of or fully understand, though here his usual voiceover is replaced with the odd conceit of a HAL-like voice in a police car. There are several subtle moments here where the camera films a group and slowly, without planning it feels like, the group forms a circle with their backs to the camera, shutting it out, and these are kind of my favourite moments.

  • The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper

    The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.