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The Zone of Interest 2023
still sorting out how I feel about this, which in this case may be a good sign — i tend to think Holocaust films should err on the side of making their audience conflicted/uncomfortable, rather than providing a weird Schindler’s List-esque emotional catharsis as so many do.
what Glazer & co. are doing here formally really works. there are a million conversations to be had about the technical side of filmmaking-as-historiography, particularly visually (film vs. digital, color grading, shot variety & pace…
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Challengers 2024
really struggling to pinpoint what about this didn’t work for me as a whole, especially because there are many individual elements that did work (or that at least felt intentional/creative/risky in a thought provoking, engaging way).
I think my main issue with Challengers is that its emotional threads—its relationships, tension, sexiness, obsession—feel largely performed or asserted rather than authentically developed or crafted through the film’s performances or form.
it’s in the script’s approach to characterisation & exposition, particularly in the opening…
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