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[Read about my experience hunting down a copy of The Beaver Trilogy at The Lumiere Reader, by way of the Internet Archive.]
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A Real Pain 2024
Jesse Eisenberg proves a dab hand at penning and constructing lo-fi relationship drama. He cast well in the central pairing, taking on the role of the more outwardly together but also more neurotic role of David, evincing believable chemistry with Kieran Culkin as his bohemian cousin, the equal parts charming and exasperating Benji. The support cast also do good work but mostly as reflecting surfaces for the two cousins. I have to say that although I had a spark of…
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Before Sunrise 1995
Haven't watched this for probably two decades. Holds up better than I thought it might. Hawke and Delpy have great chemistry, and if scene to scene you can ofttimes feel the staging the energy of the two leads keeps Linklater's philosophising grounded. Nice use of the city. A pity they didn't get to the play about the cow.
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Safety Not Guaranteed 2012
Excellent indie rom-com with more feel-good factor than I expected but it carries it well. Ostensibly a time-travel piece (genre flavour of the month!) the film's primary interest is in subverting mainstream rom-com tropes and character stereotypes; a goal which it achieves most admirably. Fun, funny, and possessed of an honest warmth lacking from many Hollywood productions of this nature, even the broad, physical comedy in this worked for me. Well worth seeing. Also, Aubrey Plaza...swoon.
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