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Hard Truths 2024
One of the great 21st century performances is captured here, you cannot avert your eyes from Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
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A Real Pain 2024
The film introduces several thought provoking concepts, how Holocaust tours compartmentalize generational trauma into confounding spaces, how these experiences (in countries where Judaism was almost completely wiped out) can feel wishy-washy for visitors, the oddity of vacationing with these tours in mind, etc.
Unfortunately, however, Jesse Eisenberg’s screenplay quickly jettisons in another direction, one that’s more inward, cold, and “me” focused, where the actions of Benji only operate in the context of how they affect David’s life. These motifs, which…
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Foragers 2022
In her November 2020 piece for e-flux journal, Jumana Manna, when writing about preservation laws under Zionism, remarks that “...every act of protection is accompanied by an erasure of another kind. The key question is often not whether to safeguard, but how and at what cost.”
As sickening acts of violence and forceful removal of land continue to be perpetuated by the Israeli government, Manna’s “Foragers” reminds viewers that colonizer destruction as a weapon of nationalism works as a multifaceted…
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The Brutalist 2024
Brady Corbet’s prodigious, years-long undertaking harbors all the elements of a carefully crafted portrait of a life actually lived, traversing decades of interwoven, intergenerational storytelling while making use of recognizable experiences of post-war Jewish assimilation for those who have heard these stories firsthand.
“The Brutalist” is a sprawling piece spanning 3-plus hours with a fifteen minute intermission (Steve McQueen did this recently with "Occupied City"), shot on VistaVision to encapsulate its expansive scope & configurational motifs. It becomes clear roughly three-quarters…
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