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  The Gleaners and I 2000

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Sep 2024

  Strange and beautiful documentary, lots of this was right up my alley. The final scene – ! The clock without hands, the heart-shaped potatoes. I liked the quirky/self-referential touches too, filming one's hands. But if I'm totally honest I am a pleb and was a bit bored by some stretches

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  Tampopo 1985

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Aug 2024

  This was delightfully nuts, please watch it

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  Grand Tour 2024

  ★★ Watched 11 Aug 2024

  I really didn't like this film. It went on and on (and on) and grappled exactly zero with its colonial context – shocking for a film made in 2024. I don't care if it was sending up similar films of the 30s and 40s – parts felt undeniably racist to me, and I don't think that's acceptable anymore. That being said, the film was visually hypnotic and I LOVED the multilingualism (every Asian country represented here is narrated in its own native language). Grand disappointment

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  Paris, Texas 1984

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Aug 2024

  Genuinely very divided about this film. It was visually beautiful and very compelling, but also I couldn't quite love it because it was made by someone who seems to conceive of women chiefly in terms of the things they can offer men (beauty, care, solace). No recognition, e.g., of how ridiculous it might be for Jane (incredibly hot, very young) to be in love with Travis (not hot, not young, not moneyed/otherwise distinguished, abusive)? It felt like Wim Wenders wanted…

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