One of the most awarded/nominated films of the year but also a quite problematic one for a not really satisfying transgender woman representation and for a not so realistic portrait of Mexico (the film is a French production, though mostly spoken in Spanish, or broken Spanish as some detractors stated). I totally understand these remarks but for me Emilia Pèrez works, because Director Jacques Audiard, who obviously wasn’t aiming to make a neorealistic drama (after all it’s based upon a…
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Misericordia 2024
Alain Guiraudie is a director who never fails to score. With his new feature MISERICORDE he has conquered the Cahiers giving us a playful and joyful “Comte immorale”. Leading Man Jeremie (newcomer Felix Kysyl) returns to his native small country village after the death of a family friend (perhaps an old lover) and the local community (especially the widow and the priest) are very eager to welcome him back but the dead’s son still hold some grudges that bring soon…
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Swann in Love 1984
If you think to titles just like Time Regained by Raoul Ruiz or La Captive by Chantal Ackerman, the idea it’s impossible to film the world of Marcel Proust has faded away through the years but in 1984, after some very ambitious attempts by directors such as Luchino Visconti (who was very passionately attached to the project) or Joseph Losey were clamorously shelved, to make a film based upon La Recherche, one of the nineteenth century’s indisputable literary masterpieces, was…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
I felt in love with Paul Thomas Anderson’s cinema in 1998 when I went to a film theatre of my town, Pisa, to watch Boogie Nights, that had just received three Oscar noms, including one to Anderson for Best Original Screenplay (he didn’t win, and so didn’t Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore in the supporting categories, though were all absolutely deserving). The topic moment was for me during the first part of the film when a simple rounding movement of…
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