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In the Lost Lands 2025
PWSA’s most visually striking film, with characters seamlessly interwoven into the digital backdrops and environments - has a film used digital space this interestingly or stunningly since Speed Racer?? There’s an explicit expressionism and abstract quality (which is also rendered in action sequences) here that brilliantly echoes the feelings of Milla and Bautista, and of the world they inhabit.
Lost my mind every time there was an extreme close-up of Milla’s eye and the film cut to the map showing…Translated from by
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Here 2024
Sincere to a fault (maybe too sincere if my audience was anything to go by, but then just further proof that time is wasted on the young - they’ll understand eventually (or maybe they won’t, at which point safe to assume they lived empty lives)), but captures the simplicity of life caught up in a complexity that we can’t really understand. The film is full of these moments of juxtaposition, but the one that stood out personally for me was…
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