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Kneecap 2024
On the surface a kind of Irish Trainspotting, this is a very funny, very clever and brilliantly edited film. What appears to be a drug fuelled romp through the origin story of an Irish language hip hop band turns out to be an ingenious way of approaching Irish politics and the endangered nature of indigenous languages. The band play themselves and the performances are superbly directed. Hugely entertaining!
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The Last of the Sea Women 2024
Interesting insight into the plight of breath-holding seafood divers under threat from Japan’s nuclear waste water. Fun characters - outspoken octogenarians in wetsuits. But too long, music a bit overpowering, and too repetitive.
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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin 2024
This is a truly original and brilliant piece of work. Repeatedly shapeshifting, it tells the life of young Mats several times over, variously through family archive, master interviews, and then a brilliantly devastating use of animation Formally inventive and exceptionally emotional at the same time, it will leave you re-assessing the point of your place in the world. (It might also be a touch long but easily forgivable, just stay with it).
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Perfect Days 2023
A small film (literally - it’s shot in 4:3, like Wender’s earlier Tokyo- based film, ‘Tokyo-Ga’) that speaks to the biggest of themes, a hymn to all things analogue, a mindful Groundhog Day revisited through fine variation of detail and camera angle, with a humanity that culminates in a breathtaking single, long shot sustained by an incredible performance from lead actor Koji Yashuko. Oh - it’s about a guy who cleans toilets for a living.
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