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Searchers 2016
Kunuk's film cleverly mimics John Ford's "The Searchers" (1956). He recreates the silhouettes in the doorway (an iconic shot), and you could liken the mushers and their dog sleds to the cowboys and their horses. The wide open icy landscape is very much like the desert landscape of the classic Western in its vastness. An important difference between the films, besides the obvious (John Wayne definitely wasn't Inuit), is that the two "sides" of the conflict are not from different…
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Petite Maman 2021
This film is an intimate and thoughtful portrait of grief, both for loved ones who’ve passed on and for relationships that should be deeper. Céline Sciamma never ceases to amaze me with her ability to sit long enough in shots to crisply outline the physical and emotional atmosphere, however simple or complex they may be. This is the kind of film I want to watch with my family in the fall, pondering on change and the beauty of what I…
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