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Drive My Car 2021
Every frame, every word is so dense with meaning. Similar to how Le Mépris manages to recontextualize The Odyssey, and manages to capture its essential divine truth without adapting it, Drive My Car does the same thing to Uncle Vanya. Firmly rooted within its artificiality (characters watching the final scene of the play on a TV), Hamaguchi breathes new life into one of the greatest literary works of all time. Like all great works of adaptation, the film only borrows…
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This is Not a Film 2011
This is the study of an existential crisis, a man trying to cope with the fact that he is not allowed to do the very thing that gives meaning to his life. Knowing Panahi's other work, it's always a good idea to doubt how *real* any of this is and whether some parts were scripted or not, but at its core it's a really interesting exploration of a certain mood.
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