The claustrophobia evoked by this film is in large part due to the unfolding disorientation of watching a single human person be as sickeningly beautiful as Carrie Coon is.
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The Eternal Daughter 2022
Dazzling to learn that there was no set screenplay or fixed plot. Perhaps because Tilda's performance is in and of itself a kind of theoretical form — because the self-reflexive doubling of her roles is the plot, the rhythm and pacing are the plot, the place is the plot, the sound design is the plot, the lighting is the plot, the makeup and hairstyling are the plot, the plot is that very lapse, that lull between the diegetic and the conceptual,…
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Suspiria 2018
Could’ve truly slayed if Mayhem was the soundtrack. Watching this on the day Gaga dropped that album kind of feels like watching Conclave the night before the 2024 presidential election. Maryam and I are gonna show up to our 10 year grad school reunion with knee-length middle part Mennonite hair like this.
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Nickel Boys 2024
“You don’t remember? You really don’t remember what happened?”
“…How much more do you want me to remember?”
A film about memory and who carries it, on an individual scale and communal scale and collective scale — a film about archival silence, that somehow manages to be emotionally rigorous and deeply humanist while remaining firmly intellectual in its efforts to visualize the violence innate to the archive and its erasures — a film not about what we see but about…
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