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  Van Gogh 1991

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Dec 2023

  Jean-Luc Godard praised the film in a letter to Pialat, in which he wrote: "My dear Maurice, your film is astonishing, totally astonishing; far beyond the cinematic horizon covered up until now by our wretched gaze.

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  Shame 2011

  ½ Added

  Because he does not know how to choose between the portrait of neurosis and his moralistic drift, McQueen only takes decisions beyond his staging power.
  By Cyril Béghin

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  Leviathan 2012

  ½ Rewatched 18 Jun 2017

  The pompous Leviathan finally arrives here with its grand reputation, which it gleaned throughout its festival run that lasted a whole year (cf. Cahiers N.684). Once it failed on our screen, this documentary, which is less experimental than formalist, reveals all of its vanity. The dispositif gives the illusion of ten minutes of gripping real time, but it is incapable of holding the viewer for its entire duration. There are a dozen of little cameras that are harnessed on and…

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