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The Balconettes 2024
the lure of pretty colours camera work and costumes to make u forget the story is terribly on the nose and the discourse bizarre and simplistic
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Amélie 2001
I've been thinking, and it seems to me that Jeunet was somewhat influenced by Wong Kar-wai for this one? I mean, this was released in 2001, at the end of the 90s, the decade of WKW. Originally I just noticed that Amélie's breaking and entering mirrored Faye's in Chunking Express (shifting details ever so slightly), her cleaning gloves especially. Obviously the whole movie has a Chunkging Express vibe (though not comparable in tone) -- the characters' little quirks are typical…
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