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Au Bonheur des Dames 1930
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I’m just going to assume that she completely lost her mind after all of the tragedy she had witnessed and experienced, because that’s the only good explanation for that ending…
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The Bronte Sisters 1979
I kept thinking how baffling a good bit of this would probably be to a viewer who went into it with no prior knowledge of the Brontës, or even just with a basic awareness that they were a family of writers. To a degree, I kind of like the restraint of it — the abrupt presentations of the deaths, for example — but that also creates an elusive and somewhat distant film that never gives much more than brief, fragmentary…
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My Dad Is 100 Years Old 2005
Somehow, Isabella Rossellini looks less like Ingrid Bergman while playing Ingrid Bergman than she does normally.
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Near Orouët 1971
How odd to have Kareen break the fourth wall early in the film to talk about her childhood memories of the house and then never use that device again. It might have been interesting to keep that up throughout, at least once in a while, having the characters confide in the viewer about things they don't discuss openly with the others -- even ostensibly trivial things, like the chamber pot that Kareen remembers.
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