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Inland Empire 2006
David Lynch’s films are the attempt to conjure the aura in an anti-auratic medium, and the results fall somewhere between a cryptic crossword puzzle and the Missa Solemnis. The means of this attempt – the representative material of film – oppose the intended enigma, which is not supposed to be resolved into ‘this is what it is’, but only further folded, such as in the ‘progression’ of Twin Peaks. This is why Lynch relies so much on sound, which appears…
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Poor Things 2023
A disturbing coming of age film. The central conceit is a baby transplanted into an adult women’s body and her subsequent, primarily sexual, development. Because the sexual advances of men towards a child are presented as the other side of her own natural sexuality and its ‘organic’ development, the male nonce desire that this conceit seemed intended to expose is converted into a narrative of positive feminine desire, discovery and ultimately, liberation.
The whole grim structure of the film progresses…
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