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Vox Lux 2018
A lot of interesting ideas that don’t fully come together in the end. BIG big swings from Corbet here that I think he smoothed out by The Brutalist (which has a lot of the same touches but done much better). The man loves his interesting credits, accent work, and narration. This is a confident movie, although sometimes a little boneheaded. There is a line of narration that compares her loss of innocence (from having sex) with the nation’s (from 9/11 I…
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Millennium Mambo 2001
That opening…
The film just exudes vibes. Aimless and at times claustrophobic which mirrors its protagonists circumstances exactly. Untethered from time like a memory which the voice overs constantly reminds us is what we are watching: a miasma of memories cobbled together in retrospect in an attempt to make sense of the senseless. Vicky had a plan all along to leave Hao-Hao…right? Yes, of course she did. We, of course, never see it. We have to take her at her…
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