After I left the theatre room on the 15th anniversary showing of this apparently classic film, I sat down and stared at the wall. ‘What a film,’ I managed to think to myself.
In the first hour after watching it, I thought only of the facts: that it had, above all, been sublimely beautiful and masterfully constructed (directed by Denis Villeneuve; in other words the sky is blue); that I still had questions (many of which were answered later in…
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Incendies 2010
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Ernest & Celestine 2012
The cutest, most wholesome movie ever. My only complaint is that it isn’t longer.
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I'm Still Here 2024
An amazing film both in its role as an exceptionally constructed time piece and as an exceedingly compelling awareness campaign. Do not mistake: this is not a documentary. It has all the requisite elements and certainly the veracity, but this is not about detailing anyone or anything grander than the Paiva family—than Eunice and her children. It does not represent this family in the clinical, bullet-pointed way that would be typical of a documentary. No: it invites the audience into…
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The Brutalist 2024
I truly tried, throughout the entire movie, my very best to separate the dismal topic at hand from my prejudices. But it fought, violently, my insistent benevolence.
I seldom leave a movie so disturbed—not at the subject, but at the way it is filmed—as I did leaving The Brutalist.
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