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The Zone of Interest 2023
„Such a nice family man, I wonder what he does for a liv…“
Anti-voyeuristic but brutally and disturbingly humanising the perpetrators of unspeakable cruelty committed by a facist society which conceived itself through familiarism. The absolute eradication and the building of family take place only separated by a concrete wall, one side of which may be graced by wine leaves one day. It is the side of the bureaucrats and housewives and their profane hopes and dreams which are inherently connected to and depending on the pure terror taking place right next to them.
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Flow 2024
The absence of dialog, the absence of words, the absence of explanation, the absence of humans and presence of civilisation, the timelessness and silence of a drowning world we are just thrown into create a magic and subtle deepness that constantly moved me to tears considering that the internet stars of the animal world are on an aimless, biblical journey through the mysteries of civilisation and existence itself, through a world that blooms, decays, becomes hostile but not less mysterious…
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The Brutalist 2024
The Brutalist migrates between various topics such as architecture, Jewish diaspora and Jewish identity, individual and collective traumas as well as the American Dream. And as the Jewish protagonists understandably can’t really make sense of all of this, as they do not really know where to go, the film does not either. Even 3.5h are not enough to profoundly elaborate on all of these subjects which results in an analytic aimlessness - it’s just too much to handle.
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Nosferatu 2024
The hyperrealistic style is an interesting choice considering that the film is about Slavic folklore. The movie uses its choice of material and of style (which makes it look like Herzogs version but on steroids) to reflect on questions about knowing and believing, natural and supernatural, science and narration, going even so far as to not oppose those different kinds of dealing with reality. Like it’s precursors it uses its historical context and its material to question and even to…
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