So interested in the stories, enjoyed the vignettes, the milieu, the music, the casual episodic structure. In the bin with the schmalzy, intrusive voice over! Over-egging big time. My favourite (and I think best) Woody Allen movies don’t have him in them- Bullets Over Broadway, The Purple Rose of Cairo. This could’ve been one of them too!
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Son of the White Mare 1981
This truly feels outside of time: contemporary and ancient. A classic steppes myth centering a mother deity who is a horse (of course) and the three sons who’ve bled her dry, but ultimately redeem themselves by delving into the underworld to retrieve some princesses/the seasons/or something. There’s also a section about porridge that feels three bears-ish. If a story is useful, it keeps getting used: sometimes for literally hundreds or thousands of years, and spreads. Unbelievably beautiful to watch, the…
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Perfect Days 2023
Gee I was worried this was going to be a twee ode to magical poor people who make beauty out of their every day lot, a la Jarmusch’s Paterson, I film I have a deep and abiding hatred of. On a basic level this is a far more beautiful film and I could’ve just enjoyed watching/listening to it (really need a word for that) even if if that’s all it was. The discipline of observing this man in his daily…
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