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Mustang 2015
This is the first film I've watched in a long time where I've had very little to say about it afterwards. Not because it needed digesting, or left me in tears, but simply because it didn't provide anything to think about. It takes an issue we are all aware of, constructs a plot around it, and ends. There's little deeper interrogation of the motives and internality of the characters involved, nor does it seem to portray the trauma of the…
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Restless 2024
A tight, tense, and quintessentially British thriller that uses music like Guantanamo fucking Bay. Lots of juicy subtext about the anxieties of middle-aged middle-Britain, which while perhaps a little too dedicated to a particular side, does an excellent job of placing financial, generational and cultural dichotomies into delectable tension with each other - and under the same semi-detatched roof at that. There are some very smart and subtle choices in the writing - having Kev be a reprieve for both…
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