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The Leopard 1963
back to the BFI more Visconti. For all its resplendence, this film opens with the reverberations of a revolution and closes with the sounds of the gunshots of a bourgeois counter revolution. I forgot how much it is about how the Prince of Salina (played by Burt Lancaster) is the only person allowed a moral conscience about world-history. We see him become increasingly isolated from a decadent world in which he has the absolute respect of everyone, but as the ball continues he cannot bring himself to say what he sees: that on some level things staying the same troubles and disgusts him.
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Le Notti Bianche 1957
a perfect film about two lovers being absolutely delusional while everyone walks back and forth over a bridge again and again
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Anora 2024
The first hour of this film is interminable. It made me feel depressed. I don't need to see the soullessness of utterly vacuous consumption. The beginning of the film depicts the life-world of Vanya, a Russian 21 year old millionaire son of some arms dealers, and his drug fuelled spending sprees and infantilised chaos as he courts Ani, a New York stripper and escort. It felt like something I'd seen before but done much better. Vanya's character is an insufferable…
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