Hell, hell of pathos and megalomania. Kiefer's nonchalant over exaggerated exaltation and search for the Sublime on the money of the billionaires is hell. Wenders' pathetic outpouring of delight for that, with scenes of a child in an ornate castle, as a pre-source of Kiefer's inspiration, is hell. Aesthetics of large golden chandeliers transferred to large walls burnt by flamethrower is hell. All that in 3D is preposterous.
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Body Scent 1983
Yesterday, after a few years, I re-watched Živojin Pavlović's Body Scent, to see if my impression would improve a little, but now I think that movie is even worse than I thought last time. Body Scent is a naturalistic melodrama, a song-and-vomit play, whose script cannot lead the characters to any human drama because it is overwhelmed by a desire for a shocking spectacle that reaches paroxysm. The film is really badly edited, patched up as in the overhaul of…
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Occupied Cinema 2018
Either you die a hero of the occupied cinema or live long enough to see yourself in the movie about it.
I didn’t become a hero, but every time I watch Senka Domanović’s brilliant doc about the occupation of the “Zvezda” (The Star) cinema that I was an active participant in, I start thinking about why that occupation was such a huge event in Serbian cultural and political history in the 2010s. What triggered such a reaction from the public?…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
Multiverse multinonsense antinarrational anything goes avant-garde mess. 5 stars.
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