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  The Killing of America 1981

  Watched 30 Mar 2024 2

  The "America has a problem with violence, it runs deep in the culture and it has to stop"-message seems half-assed and can't morally/ethically redeem the exploitative mannerisms of the film (which are abundantly clear in its use of slo-mo repetitions of people getting fatally shot). Nevertheless it is an electrifying time capsule, shoving a culture's obsession with violence down your throat in a rather oppressive manner. Fascinating not the least because of the old give-and-take between reality and fiction that…

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  Last Cannibal World 1977

  ★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  A Lake 2008

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 01 Feb 2024 2

  Un Lac applies a microscope to its protagonists and their surroundings to capture intimacies with an achingly real sense of gravity. It succeeds in destroying the intellectual border between narrative and experience, feeling extremely haptic in its observation of (material and mental) movement. Haven't seen anything quite like it.

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  A New Life 2002

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2024

  La Vie Nouvelle wants absolute immediacy. The points of reference (i.e. the loose narrative) are there just to be undermined, allowing for an endless tension that forces the image down to the gut. The film tries a violation of our instinct to connect image to language, abandoning the referential safety nets with which we tend to experience the world around us. This means that, that looks like this, this reminds me of x. Instead, it offers a brutal slab of alienating material, with this alienation approaching a "pure" experience rather than a feeling arrested in mundanity – and it succeeds surprisingly often. Intoxicating, for sure.