simply an all-around good movie. a single mother and her two teenage daughters in rural New Mexico try to figure life out and make the best of things in the early 90s. the family and other characters we meet like Javier, his mother, and Dank, are all outsiders for different reasons, and it's this outsideness that is a thread that holds these characters together, and I think what makes it extra good is that the outsideness isn't based on a…
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Satantango 1994
kind of like an epic, but instead of heroic people, they're greedy and miserable. the camera lingers, you hear their bated breath-- we watch them get entangled in their own web of despair they weave in their pursuit of salvation.
the epicness comes from Béla Tarr's vision (his auteurship). slow scenes, the visual metaphors, the slow zooms. in some scenes, you become a character in the movie as we follow behind, feeling each bump in the road, or we approach them walking, feeling the wet leaves below our rubber boots.
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Suspiria 2018
The first half I was fully in it, then instead of having some of my questions answered, I felt more confused and unsatisfied by the end of the film. Overall, I do have to say it’s a great horror film and maybe some of my confusion means I need to think about the film some more🤷🏽♀️.
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