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The Fall 2006
So Friend Loren and I went to see the 4K version on the big screen this arvo. She had never seen it before and I've only ever seen it on various small screens. And it was long enough since my last watch that part of my brain was watching it as if for the first time while the other part was anticipating all my fave scenes and lines.
I did wish we were in the bigger cinema because it felt…
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
Ooh, that took me forever to get through. And perhaps at some other time, I would have adored and totally settled into the meandering pace of this film of so many small mundane moments strung together in loneliness and companionship, of women making their own lives and their own stories.
But as it was, I really hungered for a sense of momentum that was completely absent here. Not momentum of plot so much as emotional momentum, heading towards some big…
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Jack Goes Home 2016
God, I loved every bit of this.
Completely unafraid batshit melodramatic traumatised fucked up stuff that comes entirely from grief. Beautifully filmed, excellent score that had me looking up the composer and a particular track as it was playing, and most of all Rory Culkin's performance so compelling he had me with him every step of the way.
When films about grief are done right, they are the bestest weirdly cathartic thing ever.
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Persuasion 2007
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!
Oh my god, I hated that from beginning to end. Despite its excellent casting of all the male roles and the genuine mesmerised tenderness between Sally Hawkins -- whom I like now after Fingersmith and Tipping The Velvet and yes the Paddington films -- and RPJ whom I always like --- vale Whitechapel, that show deserved better -- that was a fucken travesty in every possible way GOD. The wholly unnecessary handheld camerawork, the…
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