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The Brutalist 2024
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I generally hate calling things pretentious in any context, but here - Corbet's compared himself to Musil ('The same way that Musil’s books are frequently described as novels of ideas, I think of my movies as movies of ideas'); the first Big Idea here is an upside down Statue of Liberty, the last (excluding the epilogue) is an upside down cross - real heady stuff.
I think anyone reading ambiguity into the ending is giving the film way too much…
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Beau Travail 1999
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Still basically flawless. "Poetic" is probably an overused word in film criticism, but when I think about the ending I keep thinking of a line of WB Yeats (which I can't source now and am probably going to butcher in paraphrase), that the key to a great poem is the use of a word which is intellectually surprising but in hindsight inevitable.
Like Trouble Every Day, this uses an extreme choice of subject matter to represent the pretty much universal,…
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Master Gardener 2022
A very weird film even as someone pretty familiar with late-Schrader - can't imagine how it'd play to someone coming in fresh. After very explicitly delving into wider political realities for his last two, this for the most part elides the obvious contemporary overtones of the subject matter in favour of something more self-contained (he's described it as a fable, which I think is right). The one jarring use of "proud boy" as an insult is a reminder that Schrader…
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