Too polished and neatly structured to make any real impact, and as such the violence plays out like spectacle rather than as the consequence of a political or economic system.
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Identifying Features 2020
Some critics have noted that while Identifying Features is a strong and accomplished debut film “little is learned about the relevant issues by watching it.*” This statement reveal a lot about both how we think about film and how we think about border politics and migration, and it is especially telling when non-Mexican viewers expect the film to fill their own information gap while watching instead of paying attention to what this specific film is aiming to do.
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Something Different 1963
The contemporary film world desperately needs more Chytilovás. People who don't give a shit about rules and what a film should be, but rather say "why the hell not".
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Sunday in Peking 1956
The voice-over is both so blatantly orientalist and intentionally shallow that it only serves to show us the impossibility of doing anything but scratching the surface. Marker could never be anything other than a stranger looking in, and instead of pretending to, he goes in the opposite direction. It's all an exaggerated performance, with acrobats, dancers and gymnasts at the front and center. It works to a degree, but I still have the feeling he wanted to make something completely different. It's not as experimental as his later work, and is overall less interesting because of it.
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