The makeup/wardrobe, esp for the second half of the movie? Soo good. Every time Keshawn came on the screen I was irrrritated. Tumbleweave! SZA is the weak link friend in her songs & in this role lol.
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
The little flirty whimsical melody that plays for Anu/Shiaz!
The jolting ubiquity of English!
Cat ultrasound!
Defacing billboards! Labor >>>> profit/modernity 🙂↕️
The scene of her wearing the burqa on the train!
The cave. The cave!
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Lost in Translation 2003
Initial thought: should you use mistranslation/language barrier as a humor mechanism this extensively if you aren’t then going to deliver some illuminated understanding about those themes? Yes, often we are laughing at Bob and Charlotte as much as we are laughing at the Cathy Park Hong Bad English-es of the Japanese, but overall Coppola’s treatment of her chosen setting feels unearned.
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Beau Travail 1999
I don’t think I like a film that relies so heavily on narration of a present self about a past self.
But there’s something that is so so alluring about sinuous skin against blue ass water/sky, their contrast. BFI review calls this piece “a near-ballet of a film that’s at least as much a work of choreography as of verbal storytelling.” I love that phrasing, near-ballet.
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