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The Three Musketeers 2011
2. wish the initial sexual tension between D’Artagnan and his unnamed, and then never-to-be-seen-or-mentioned-again dad had been eventually consummated
3. director aiming for franchise with a star-studded cast (the two orlando blooms?) making $, making a flop of slopTranslated from by
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Winter Journey 2012
"is this your india?"
stunning ~ slow violence, edges of violent release that line the seams of every relation, the risk of some kind of annihilation stitching the characters together; the characters cross and watch each other cross into discrete landscapes of annihilation, restraining and releasing. all of the sprinting over ice and snow pack. brilliant acting. range rovers.
an intimate violence, eric seeking an emptiness that nurtures, activates, reciprocally.
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The Brutalist 2024
adrien brody always has my love. the musical score was wonderful jazz/klezmer/archival collage. beautiful claustrophobic opening sequence, maybe the last impactful moment in the film.
there were SO many problems with this film: no character development over the course of a three hour long film meant characters were only charicatures of "addiction," "immigrant jew," "closeted patrician," etc.; mostly yelling not acting; extraordinary passivity in dealing with class or racial politics; uninteresting ideas about how to protray beauty or evoke the…
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