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Meiyazhagan 2024
clear-eyed sentimentality that made me misty-eyed basically the entire second half of the movie
something like the bike story is a beat that a random netflix movie might flounder or a youtube skit may parody, but i think what makes it—and much of the movie—work here is that it is rooted in character, narrative context, and performance, as well as given space to develop and permit contemplation
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Evolution of a Filipino Family 2004
The past as a phantom limb, statues that move, insects as royalty. Lav Diaz's staggering epic functions in a mode of freedom in aesthetics and narrative, drawing upon a framework that seeks to reconstruct itself throughout its long runtime (~10.5 hrs). In the film, darkness threatens to engulf the frame and bleached out light approaches total whiteness and Diaz switches without fuss between video and film, while integrating in archival footage and interviews naturally both into the narrative and the…
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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed 2023
"it's the same problem as with the banana"
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