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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
Going into the screening the only things I knew about the film were that it topped the 2022 Sight and Sound 'Greatest Films of All Time' poll, and that it features a lot of monotonous potato peeling.
Watching the film it was hard to ignore the title it had been awarded, and whilst I certainly don't think it is my favourite film of all time, or indeed what I would vote for as the greatest, I don't think the title…
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Asteroid City 2023
“I still don’t understand the play.”
“You don’t have to. just keep telling the story.”Asteroid City is one of Wes' more introspective works. From SNL parodies to viral TikTok trends, Wes is being labelled in pop culture as a film-maker that is more style over substance - focussed on aesthetically pleasing whimsy at the cost of delivering anything with meaning. His response is to double on the visual stuff and to tell a rich story of people that are…
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006
Guilty pleasure type film. Chuckled for most of the runtime
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The Third Man 1949
I found this quite dull tbh, but maybe it wasn’t the right tone of film to match my bachelor night-in kebab vibe. Can imagine enjoying it much more at the cinema
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Don't Shoot the Messenger 2023
Watched whilst on a break from work after seeing AmericanBaron was in it
A cute concept delivered pretty well
Yes, that was a postal joke
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TÁR 2022
A brilliantly captivating movie full of metaphor and contrast. For a life that is filled with music, Tàr is eerily silent with very little sound other than what Lydia creates for us. She exercises such tight control over her life, the music, and people within it whilst so much is withheld from us an audience; nothing in this film is there to provide answers or closure, but rather to showcase to us the complexities of man and the power of…
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