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A Complete Unknown 2024
“Freedom […] isn’t that what you wanted?”
aka: men will do anything (including fabricating their past, hitchhike to befriend a dying singer, cheat on their loving girlfriends, break the rules of an entire music genre publicly and dismantle a beloved festival in the process, exploit the inexplicable power that comes with having a male appendix to treat everyone poorly, look poorly, smell poorly and still be labeled as mysterious and charming, and above all, get a motorcycle) instead of going…
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Vermiglio 2024
Call it a biopic/documentary and I’ll love it. Until then I will take the sweetest crunchiest nap you’ve ever seen, thanks to the incredible ASMR sound design and the slowest plot progression in history
(Serious comments: the character development in this movie is WILD but it’s so quiet and muted that you almost miss it. Culturally well-researched, will strike a chord with lots of Italians. The photography work in the snow is basically poetry. There is a lot to love about how personal this feels. But again - the approach is documentaristic and autobiographical, and for that, it couldn’t get me on board for 2 hours)
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The Brutalist 2024
There are many eloquent reviews out here that explain all the qualities of this movie. What I am taking home is a story of violence endured, and violence performed in response. Violence towards the victims and survivors of the holocaust, later immigrants, the poor and indigent, the minorities, the intellectuals subjugated by capitalism, men who only know how to exercise power through assault. But all this pain became violence in response, as we receive suggestive hints of the brutality being…
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Perfect Days 2023
Ah to be a lonely intellectual in Tokyo, taking pictures of tree leaves, playing tik tak toe with strangers, smiling at the start of each day, and doing all this as an active exercise to not be chewed and swallowed by the void of existence
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