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  Aquarius 2016

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Feb 2017

  Aquarius is an achievement from Filho, fulfilling the promise he showed with Neighboring Sounds. It's concerned with the injustices of those in power, the elite and privileged governments and businesses that threaten. But instead of focusing on that, I want to focus on another subject that the film is so fascinated with: memory. How do we remember that which has come before? Is it through objects, like the armoire that Aunt Lucia brought from college and was inherited by Clara,…

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  Happy-Go-Lucky 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Feb 2017

  What a tremendous and special film this is (as are all of Mike Leigh's films)! The characters are boundlessly rich in texture, and it manages to speak about dozens of topics without ever seeming unfocused. Poppy, played superbly by Sally Hawkins, is our titular "happy-go-lucky" heroine. Consistently the brightest and most colorful person in the room, Poppy consternates, confounds, and irritates so many around her. Like a walking rainbow, Poppy displays a carefree and energetic attitude, cracking off jokes at…

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