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A Strange Path 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In Guto Parente’s latest feature, A Strange Path, the filmmaker returns to his roots–both thematically and physically–crafting a narrative that is as intimate as it is surreal. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly escalating COVID-19 crisis in Brazil, the film follows David (Lucas Limeira) as he attempts to navigate the labyrinthine complexities of his family relationships and the existential dread he’s facing.
The film’s first act is fraught with a mix of nostalgia and trepidation. David’s quest to reconnect…
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Orbita 2024
Yervand Vardanyan’s Orbita is set against the somber backdrop of the 44-day War between Azerbaijan and Armenia, a period marked by collective grief. “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence,” Karl Marx once wrote, “but their social existence that determines their consciousness.” So it is for the drifters Vardanyan follows. Every character here bears the scars of this conflict while navigating life and toiling at Orbita, an abandoned Soviet factory turned backgammon production hub where the…
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