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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun 1999
Part 2 of the 2 film special screening at Lincoln Center at which the Oriki Collective and singer Woz Kaly presented a live scoring/interpretation of Mambety’s films. See my review of Le Franc.
Little Girl Who Sold the Sun was even better. These aren’t the kinds of films I usually seek out. Senegal is a place I know very little about culturally, historically, socially, artistically…sometimes that makes it difficult to enjoy art from a culture you don’t understand. Yet, Mambety…
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Le Franc 1994
First time seeing a film by Mambety and oh wow it was magical. The screening I saw had a live French/Senegalese band (the Oriki Collective and Woz Kaly) playing along to the film with their own original score. Parts of the dialogue and original audio had been muted. I don’t think I have experienced such rhythmic immersion in a cinematic experience before — everything from the way people talk to the editing, the movements of the camera and the action…
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The Brutalist 2024
I suppose I had my reservations about seeing this assuming a 4 hour long movie starring Adrien Brody as a modernist architect would be a pretentious load of bull crap.
The first half made me feel pretty optimistic that I’d be wrong — surprisingly sensitive, poetic and funny. The second half devolved into the nonsense I feared it would be. The epilogue (at “the first architecture biennale” ) felt like one of the most disrespectful ways a director could treat…
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Girls Will Be Girls 2024
What an incredibly sensitive, complex, sweet film. It’s a coming of age movie, but it definitely hits different coming from the angle of high schoolers discovering romance at an Indian boarding school.
The ways we understand and approach romance and are able give and receive love are so influenced by our parents. This movie does a really good job showing how frustrating that can be when it feels like an inescapable burden — one that keeps getting in the way…
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