I watch it every year on Groundhog Day. 🤷🏻♂️
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El Planeta 2021
Touching movie about a mother and daughter struggling to survive in Gijón. Engaging performances and beautifully shot, but it felt a bit meandering at times, while the ending was perhaps too abrupt. But engaging nevertheless, and I look forward to Ulman’s next films.
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Harold and Maude 1971
Watched this with someone who had never seen it, which shocked me. I’ve seen it several times, and was a bit obsessed with it in my teen years. Sometimes a bit heavy-handed with the hippiedom but that’s leavened by the black humor, so it works anyway.
A genuinely funny, touching, and sad film, for me at least, and I love just looking at it because it reminds me of the green and wet San Francisco Bay Area of my youth. (It came out the year I was born.)
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 2021
An interesting and entertaining movie, I admired the way it was unafraid to make big tonal shifts among its three parts, and examine serious things in comic ways (as well as highlighting the tragic in funny things). The camera work in part one, where the view would go from following the actors to wander off into street scenes, commercial culture, decaying buildings, etc., was captivating, the Devil’s Dictionary of part two bleak and funny, and the funhouse trial of part…
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