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I Am Love 2009
almost unbearable opulence. luca guadanino of course has an eccentric opulence to his camera movements as well. the way the camera sways, zooms in suddenly to an off-center detail, the way it surprises; it doesn't capture; it provokes, it tilts, it is seduced and being seduced by these grand movements is effective, intoxicating. then there's tilda. tilda! obviously one of the greatest living actresses. she's a unique master of displaying secrecy, composure, repression, ambivalence... when this movie could have become…
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The Philadelphia Story 1940
the philadelphia story is a uniquely intelligent rom-com, because the girl at the center of the narrative is always in control of the arbitrary plot. she is never wooed, not really. only when drunk, and by her own designs/desires, does she seem to allow herself to be allured by one of the suitors. the ridiculously tedious plot, explicated and enacted through an almost incantatory stream of dialogue that bombastically expresses the hopes and fears of a generation of americans through…
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