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Dead Lover 2025
I saw this at Sundance. A lot of the audience liked it but it wasn't my cup of tea. It was intentionally campy and if that's your sort of thing, you might like it.
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Prime Minister 2025
I saw this at Sundance. It's a fantastic movie. Adern is inspiring.
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Agent of Happiness 2024
A very confused and plodding documentary about the happiness survey that Bhutan conducts regularly. The documentary showed several interviewees and in particular followed one of the surveyors who had lost his citizenship during a conflict in the 1990s (that was never explained). He was unable to marry because he was no longer a citizen.
The survey says that most Bhutanese are happy but the people interviewed in the film were definitely not. When one of the directors was asked after the movie to explain the discrepancy she gave a wandering non-answer. This was the first movie where the directors made me like the movie less.
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Sugarcane 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Absolutely brutal description of what happened to indigenous children in Canadian Indian residential schools. The movie was heartwrenching. The use of nature scenes to reveal and deepen the understanding of the human emotions being portayed was masterful.
The directors Emily Cassie and Julian NoiseCat spoke after the movie and added so much depth to a movie that I already loved. Emily was the impetus to the project but without Julian's decision to open up some very painful memories in his…
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