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Where the Night Stands Still 2025
Conceived by 6 people, who are employed as Philippine workers in Italy, during a brainstorming session on a Flixbus. It is basically an amateur movie, but the slow pace, the camera, and the story with overarching themes of personal sacrifice, hardship, and no sense of belonging of caretaker workers make it one of the strongest experiences during the whole Berlinale festival. I was honestly blown away and wish the movie and its crew all the best.
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That Summer in Paris 2025
I am usually very uncomfortable when watching cringy behavior, but this is made with such humanity and finesse, that I really empathized with the super awkward main protagonist and her small adventure in Paris.
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Oslo, August 31st 2011
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Life destroyed by drugs or a life artificially prolonged by drugs? Andres struggles with a drug addiction and has a one day to catch up with friends and family, because he is leaving his treatment for one day. It is a very candit exploration of addiction but also depression with one very strong scene in the middle - Andres sitting in a cafe alone and listening to people, but he can only imagine the dullness and emptiness of their life.…
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Civil War 2024
The idea of what the movie wants to be is communicated right at the beginning - we as an audience are watching president's speech in the TV through the lens of protagonist Lee, who herself is watching the speech through camera. The cameras are often symbolically used in a same way as weapons in the movie (look how most of the cameras have the similar position as weapons when people speak). The role of the war journalist is however deconstructed.…
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