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Memoria 2021
This could appear to one a somewhat demanding film, until you realize that the director literally welcomes dozing off during his films, then you wonder if you’re just bringing in your own tension and baggage. This is the realization that dawned on me in the wake of my viewing experience. During the viewing of my only other current reference point for Weerasethakul, Uncle Boonmee, i found myself in a relaxed hypnogogic languor; unhurried and just kind of melting into the…
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Until the End of the World 1991
The longer something goes on for, the more opportunity it has for both missteps and strokes of genius. Until The End of the World, clocking at nearly 5 hours, has ample time for plenty of both.
The sheer ambition of the piece is something in itself to marvel. Globe-trotting in a near future sci-fi reality across an epic story featuring intrigue, espionage, and apocalypse, ending up in a final stretch that does more to travel the internal world as opposed…
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Buck Breaking 2021
The ice age was so cold and brutal it drove prehistoric Europeans to invent homosexuality ✅
In some Scandinavian countries it is legal to have sex with sheep ✅
Homosexuality is a white colonialist construct invented only to prevent black people from reproducing ✅
To be gay or to be transgender as a black person is to embrace your own oppression, to give up your identity ✅
White men do not enjoy sex with women, it is simply a…Translated from by -
Don't Look at Me That Way 2015
I got to participate in a Q&A with the director/lead actress and cinematographer of this film at the screening I attended, and it’s likely that what I heard there slightly colored my perception of the picture.
What the film appears to deliver is a caustic attitude that rejects a culture of quiet dishonesty. Hedi is very blunt with those around her, and may come off as curt or mean-spirtied in interactions with even her closet friends. But, to play the…
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