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Nostos: The Return 1989
A melancholic comedown of a new year's day I curled up in Max's lap to fall asleep to the sound of the lapping ocean against a boat and some yelling men while he watched Nostos, so I figure I can log it, and it saves my first film of the year (and return to letterboxd) from the irredeemable Poor Things)
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Miami Vice 2006
The homes in Miami Vice are empty. Not just of quotidian accoutrements, but of movement, noise, life, energy. They are just houses, not homes. Rico says to Alonso, 'you don't... you don't need to go home' because his home isn't a home anymore, but Isabella's is no home, neither is Nicholas', and Trudy is too alive to even get past her front door.
Every other scene/frame/location is full of energy transfers and information, light. The camera wobbles, taking everything in…
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Poor Things 2023
The Curious Case of Bella Baxter purports itself as feminist, a kind of post-pill sexual liberation-cum-2010s middle class OE tinder drive. If taken as such, Holly Waddington’s reliance on the leg o’ mutton sleeve might be read as shorthand for the politics of dress. And yet if Bella Baxter, with a serious case of baby brain, is donning some large sleeves as armour to embark on her great feminist journey of genuine sexual experience, why are we left so wanting…
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