"i see the world opening up and swallowing us all"
a gigantic and tremendous synthesis of influences, formally astonishing and thematically vertiginous. charged social commentary and political perspective more topical than ever, and flawlessly intertwined with multiplication of media, entanglement of images and point of views, confusion of real and virtual spaces.
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Strange Days 1995
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The Plains 2022
a hypnotic and deeply moving endless road journey, at the junction between Kiarostami and Weerasethakul.
deserted plains between individuals, windshield as a screen where images pass and time dilates, comfort and melancholy of daily drive home.
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Dune 2021
dull, drab and emotionless, the tragedy never gains momentum and remains frozen in a laborious and perpetual straight line — instead of playing with the chronologies in order to deconstruct the story.
just like the victims of the giant worms swallowed into the desert, the film is bogged down under the constant explanatory dialogues and the ubiquitous and noisy layers of Zimmer.
Lynch's adaptation is far from perfect, but at least he had original ideas and tried some things.
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Benedetta 2021
a fascinating game of power and manipulation within a cynical and hypocritical religious system.
as always, Verhoeven disrupts every code and expectation through an incredibly rich labyrinth of ambiguity and duality. he's still a master at creating characters full of paradoxes — here sublimated by Virginie Efira's dazzling performance — and placing the cursor right between first and second degree, truth and lies, pleasure and pain, paradise and hell.
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