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The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024
Even in the shocking last act that gagged me more than any film has since The Salesman, the father’s complexity is retained - the true antagonisms in the film are not between him and his daughters, but within him, and ultimately, one side takes over: the guilt in his complicity in the state’s acts finding the perfect scapegoat in his family’s actions, poisoning his faith in order to punish them. The daughters not actively protesting but participating on the sidelines…
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White Material 2009
Nothing better than seeing an auteur’s work for the first time and just locking in from the get-go. So confident in the way it is told that jumps in time or what otherwise would be regarded as sloppy editing, I understood effortlessly if not implicitly. Another great moving vehicle film, so refreshing to see shaky cam deployed with such formal rigour
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Nosferatu 1922
One of the earliest frights I experienced as a child was seeing the scene with Orlok’s shadow going up the stairs to Ellen’s room - in my memory this scene is a thousandfold more terrifying than any repeat viewing of it can ever be, as it is also tied to a particular time and place: in an outhouse that at the time was part of my grandfather’s home, in a room that we rarely used yet still felt lived in…
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