As a portrait of a family it’s deeply affecting, and Fernanda Torres and Co. are as good as they’re saying. However, the political circumstance under the Brazilian Military dictatorship is too vaguely defined. It’s certainly possible this is just due to my own ignorance (although I’ve seen a number of reviews by Brazilians say similar things), but the dictatorship feels detached from its political context, as if it could be any evil regime. This depoliticization has the effect of slightly diminishing the tender effect of the family and leaving the audience with little to glean that isn’t already obvious or a cliche.
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Last Summer 2023
[Mild, vaguely referenced spoilers]
Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini once asked Catherine Breillat what she could bring to the table with her depiction of women that men hadn’t already captured, and her response to this was, “the look of shame, shame that you give us, and we carry.” And this seems to be a core idea throughout her films, so the question becomes, how is this applied in Last Summer?
That Breillat refrains from outright condemnation of Lea Drucker’s Anne, informs…
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PLUTO 2023
Really good until the final 1.5 episodes morph it into a colossal disappointment and mess.
Starts as a smart, intriguing Urasawa mystery with developed characters and themes, but rapidly falls apart and devolves into a mystery that is convoluted and without true payoff, plot and characters that are ridden with cliche, and thematically loses any nuance, ambiguity or intrigue the beginning of the series has, and instead opts for the single most generic and boring theme of all action anime conveyed in the laziest possible way.
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Fishmans: Otokotachi no Wakare 98.12.28 @ Akasaka Blitz 2005
For 132 minutes I ascended to Heaven
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