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  Afire 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jul 2023

  Climate change as a plot point which should be shocking but feels weirdly normalized.

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  Bird 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Dec 2024

  This is the film I have been waiting for. I fell deeply in love with a character that initially seemed irredeemable. “Sometimes I think my life would be better without youse, but I love youse!” Or some such from Barry Keoghan and I am dead. Plus gorgeous 16mm film, and Franz Rogowski somehow gets more beautiful with each film he is in. Kudos to the frog. Nykiya is astonishing and AA is a genius but we knew that.

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  All That Breathes 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2023

  Stunningly beautiful documentary that perfectly marries form and content. The camera’s deliberate movements and the unhurried edits slow down the viewer’s experience of the film itself and settle us squarely into the world of the subjects. The unusual main characters speak in metaphor and poetry and this language, which feels rooted in both ancient text and modern science, describes their own birds eye view of life in New Delhi, of humanity’s interdependence with other creatures, and their acute awareness of…

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  Close 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2023

  It was beautiful. It was devastating. A stomach punch of a film. You had to mop me up off the floor. The performances were so tender - a master class in directing young people.

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