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The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967
The warm summer day follow-up to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’s cold winter night. Pure joy captured on film as far as I’m concerned.
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Life Is Beautiful 1997
Here is what I wrote for my Italian Cinema class:
I did not enjoy this film at all.
Life Is Beautiful tells the story of a Jewish Italian who does everything he can to protect his son from witnessing the horror of the concentration camp they are imprisoned in. I have no issues with first half of the film, beyond the fact that I found it mundane and unfunny, which is fine. Its satire of the racial laws of Italy…
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Megalopolis 2024
TIFF Day 6 (Scotiabank Theatre IMAX)
Putting this movie down feels like elder abuse, but I’m going to do it anyway. Take the political intrigue of The Phantom Menace, the digital beauty of Attack of the Clones, and cast the denizens of Joel Schumacher’s Gotham City and you get this. None of these characters feel like real people. Shia LaBeouf and Aubrey Plaza are clearly having a lot of fun with their theatrical parts. Others never seem to get on…
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