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Limbo 2023
Ivan Sen has made consistently great work combining pulpy detective stories with Aaron Pedersen and an almost undefinable authenticity of place. In Limbo he strives for more, trading in Pedersen and authenticity for arthouse cinematography, Pinteresque dialogue, and Simon Baker. The effect is not the same.
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The Souvenir 2019
The critical talk around The Souvenir has been odd and at times confusing, there is a large consensus that the film is good, though no clear explanation on why this is so. After seeing the film, I see why, I too have come to the conclusion that it is brilliant, and yet, I am not entirely sure how to articulate exactly why I love it.
Perhaps it’s because its brilliance lies in it’s textural quality, not in the text of…
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The Square 2017
The Square is beautifully shot, incredibly funny, expansive exploration into the idea of altruism in society. However it’s the ‘expansive’ nature of this exploration where the film falls a little short, the idea is examined in so many different scenes and in so many different ways, that whole thing just left me a little overfull. It is not a case of the dilution, a little too much bad mixed in with the good, because in isolation I could not fault any scene in this film, rather, The Square is more of an embarrassment of riches.
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