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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  The place where all tracks end
  is the place where history was meant to stop
  but does not stop  where thinking
  was meant to stop but does not stop
  where the pattern was meant to give way at last
                      but only

  becomes a different pattern
               terrible, threadbare
  strained  familiar  on-going

  (Adrienne Rich)

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  Saint Omer 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  Diop left me absolutely speechless. Guslage Malanda as Oedipus, the sphynx, and the riddle, offering no answers and no consolation. For me, up there with "There Will Be Blood" as one of the key films of the 21st century.

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  The Little Foxes 1941

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Apr 2022

  There will be blood.

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2024

  «Usually, [Sandra] Hüller builds her characters from empathy. “But I gave [Hedwig] nothing.”» (The Guardian)

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