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  Talking About the Weather 2022

  ★★★★ Rewatched 08 Jan 2024

  Again (enthusiastically pointing all of my fingers in Valeska Grisebach’s direction, and mentioning her just because I feel a strong need to call her by her name) a glimpse of hope at the foggy horizon of German televisio… ehmmmm cinema’s future. 

  There is not a lot of pleasantry to be found in this plain, sincere and unironic film. But Pinske’s dry and realist approach to humor is charming as hell without ever blurring the heaviness it bears.

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  Bros 2022

  ★★ Watched 12 Dec 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  ★ Watched 08 Mar 2023

  The script is very well written, everything that tries to render it as a film falls drastically flat.
  This is not a film. This is just text and shot/reverse shot-sequences of faces interrupted by filmic (and that’s already the nature of it) landscapes. 
  The audience gets brutally dragged through the script in a teleologically constructed series of three-sentence-interactions leaving the story no space to breath or evolve. 
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  Fire of Love 2022

  ★ Watched 07 Feb 2023

  I can’t quite understand, why of all those wonderful films you could create about this topic and its fascinating human and nonhuman subjects, Sara Dosa chose to make this particular one. Neither does it tell a lot about vulcanos nor does it invest in breaking the surface of that picturesque love story.

  Nothing in this film is allowed to erupt, a metaphor the voice-over would speak to superfluously poetize the vulcanologists’ stunning visual archive footage. The director tries to summon…

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