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A Complete Unknown 2024
All this praise and continued business for biopics never ceases to puzzle me. Besides performances and cinematography, why? Just simply, why? It’s sometimes an elusive or pretentious question, but where is the art in this? These type of biopics feel like such elaborate nostalgia traps that always feature an almost AI-like slideshow of things that happened in real life and shout “remember this?”, “here, you know this song, don’t you?” and “recognise this historic person?”. The lifeforce of these films…
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Babygirl 2024
My deepest desire? To stop being tricked into spending two hours on someone’s deranged fan fiction guised as an esteemed feature film production.
There are better ways to provoke a prude audience or bring sex fantasies to the silver screen. Let’s not simultaneously almost romanticise rotten people with psychotic tendencies. The cojones on the writers for ending the conflict with a scene that lectures the husband – of all people – on the fact that women can be sexual too.…
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Patrick 2019
There is no tougher audience than a Flemish cinephile when it comes to Belgian filmmaking. In a depressing reality that allows four (!) FC De Kampioenen films to be made, while directors that try to do something different struggle to fill their cinema seats, it is becoming more and more puzzling to grasp the mindset of how people like to spend their money on entertainment in this country. During a disappointing starting week in theatres, “De Patrick” had difficulty convincing…
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Dazed and Confused 1993
It’s happening again. My heart is pounding, and my stomach probably houses a billion butterflies right now. The very first notes of Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith start gracing my ears and my whole body is gradually overtaken by a welcomed and familiar sensation of electricity. I’m alive and for the next two hours I’m going to be fully aware of that fact. I’m on my favourite audiovisual high. I’m watching Dazed and Confused.
There’s something about the opening sequence that…
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