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Suzume 2022
I enjoyed this one, and helped rehabilitate my relationship to Shinkai's work after the disappointment I felt with Weathering With You a few years ago. However I still have to say that his work tends to leave me feeling like I ate too much cake – it apes the magical logic of Miyazaki, but at its core it's high octane melodrama, and it gets to a point where I wish he would just embrace the interpersonal character development and drop…
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Presence 2024
I'm into the fact that this is a bold premise for a feature film, and I like the overarching ideas behind a lot of it. However, I have to admit in execution the film fell largely flat for me. I felt little to no chemistry between characters and the ambience lacked that mystic, beyond-this-life quality that the story seemed to be relying upon to work. I wanted to like it, but it didn't really add up to much for me.
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Maria 2024
Suffused with the spirit and stylized artifice of opera, I really enjoyed this fantastical riff on Maria Callas's life. Romantic, decadent, and indulgent, it provides Angelina Jolie with an appropriate canvas to occupy that mythological, always distant and profoundly contradictory figure of the operatic diva. As a composer, this film reminded me of the deep impact 19th century opera had on me, and of the great stories its performers have embodied. The slower, theatrical narrative rhythm that Pablo Larraín borrows from the operatic genre is a welcome breath of fresh air in a market saturated with films made for obliterated attention spans.
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The Brutalist 2024
I actually didn’t really care for this film, found it hard to connect with on an intellectual or emotional level. The historical research and filmmakers’ connection to the topic may have been deep, but the manner in which it is synthesized into the film’s story and characters feels surprisingly hollow to me. Characters like Erzsébet feel more like plot devices than people, and I don’t feel like I learned much about main character László beyond the internal and external conflicts…
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