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Compartment No. 6 2021
Rolling my eyes even further back at Finland's aspirations to join NATO.
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My Sister’s Good Fortune 1995
Another one of Schanelec’s enviable contemporary realist films where the integration of the intensity of everyday life and art for the director/screenwriter seems very complete and coherent. This is one of Schanelec's earliest features, but you'll find her visual style (a focus on the body and face of actors, flat images that inscribe clean and simple lines and framing) already strongly represented and already mesmerising.
In this film, the geometry of faces and actions seem to say something about how…
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Yearning 1964
The negotiation of modernity plays out more in the realm of the protagonist’s inner torment and self-deceptions rather than as a matter of material practicality. The potential of Reiko’s romantic and prosperous future with her younger brother-in-law Koji seems within reach but for her sense of shame or fear of social stigma.
As Reiko is departing on the train for her hometown ready to leave the house of her in-laws for good, Koji arrives in the carriage insisting on accompanying her. In the lead up…
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