Horror. Bergman. Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Camp melodramas. Social realism. Anything Japanese. Haneke. Greenaway.
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2023
Liked this better than Bad Luck Banging, which, despite being shorter, felt like more of an endurance test? I was more on this one's wavelength. Modern life *is* exhausting and we're all getting fucked, whether in Romania or elsewhere. Enjoyed the appearances from Nina Hoss and (what?!) Uwe Boll.
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Matters of the Heart 2024
The moments where this strives for lyrical over-stylization, it really falls flat and feels like a showreel for Danish Film School graduates (there was *absolutely* no need for the visions of the Magic Little Girl), but apart from that, there is a finely written and acted drama in here about alcoholism and the way it affects an alcoholic's loved ones. It's funny when you can see *exactly* what you would prune out of a film and what you would beef up to make it better. But nevertheless, there's good stuff here.
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Dogs Don't Wear Pants 2019
Saw this knowing nothing about it, and for a good while I genuinely thought it was going to end up a horror movie. Instead, it's a kind of love story, but one where the characters don't really have enough personality to make you care about them. Their traits are basically "detached widower" and "dominatrix" and that's it, that's all we find out through the minimal dialogue. The daughter's role goes absolutely nowhere and could be cut from the film. I…
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The Matrix Resurrections 2021
Eh. It is what it is. Trying to work out how I feel about this is a whole meta-matrix of its own. I feel disheartened by our current age of endless self-perpetuating, self-cannibalising IPs, and to see the Matrix franchise - *defined* by its very freshness and independent cool when it first arrived - become just another nostalgia-button-pushing reboot ("I still know kung fu") is kind of disheartening on a whole new level? I like callbacks in stand-up shows. I…
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