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Memory Lane 2024
I loved this so much for so many reasons: a really beautiful relationship at the centre with warmth, bickering, memories, but also worries for the future & navigating old age.
Also, it's so funny! Or is it just x2 funnier because it's in Dutch, who knows.
Admittedly, I only understood maybe 75-80% of the dialogue because there were no English subs but otherwise would highly recommend.
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News from Home 1976
Everyday vignettes of an at once bustling and empty city. The faces of strangers. The loneliness of moving somewhere alone with reminders from home drowned out by the sound of the metro and traffic...
Anything with a French speaking maternal voice is bound to get me in the feels - especially when the voice of Chantal's mother in letters from the 1970s is the same as those of my mum and mamie over whatsapp in 2025 ("ta maman qui t'aime", "envoie-moi des photos")
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Lee 2023
A pretty good, respectful tribute to Lee Miller, and broadly well acted (shout out to Andy Samberg). I liked how they showed some of the original photographs at the end. The trouble with biopics is there is so much to fit in, and this felt a bit rushed at times, like disjointed spotlights of time rather than a cohesive plot with growth/development. But I'm also not sure what could have been cut, and the twist at the end did feel…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
A deeply uncomfortable watch, but rightfully so - the depiction of turning away & purposeful ignorance is powerful, and the distance between the viewer and the characters (no close ups) is effective even if it's impossible not to ask yourself what you'd have done, & what we all ignore (or try not to constantly think about) nowadays.
I would make an insightful comment about the ingenious use of sound but this was a bit ruined by the thumping beats of All of Us Strangers playing next door. Just in case anyone was wondering, Frankie Goes to Hollywood does not work as the soundtrack to a Holocaust film.
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