Slow and sublime.
Takes a while to get going but you don't know when you become a part of the journey and all of a sudden it's the writer, the kid and you in it together.
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Alice in the Cities 1974
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Perfect Days 2023
How little we need in life to gain a sense of contentment. Perfect days blurs the lines between loneliness and embracing solitude.
How it uses art and literature in form of music and books is just poetry in motion.
Win Wenders just showing a slice of his pop culture taste too.The soundtrack just kills, just the perfect use of 70s rock music - complementing the mood.
But where it actually hits the spot is the role of komorebi, the…
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Taste of Cherry 1997
You can't get over the sadness ridden face - difficult to shake it off. Camerawork here again adds so much to the plot as in most works of Kiarostami and is critical in the character development, putting you right in the protagonist shoes even though the story doesn't reveal the first thing about why he is taking the extreme step.
The imagery in the shot where the dirt falls from the machinery over the protagonist's shadow is pure genius.
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The Wind Will Carry Us 1999
Slice of life experience with very human characters and stunning backdrops throughout - which add to the plot in more ways than one.
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