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A Complete Unknown 2024
Good acting and production quality fared well for a biopic that unfortunately only focused on a sliver of Dylan’s 64 years of unparalleled folk mastery and songwriting. . With so much to cover in his storied musical career, the film ended up being a frustrating repetition of single scenes that captured one event, albeit significant. Bob Dylan fans will - or perhaps won’t - be impressed.
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I'm Still Here 2024
The warmth, lust for life, kindness, and respect-filled love that permeated ( and still does) the fabric of Brazilian families in 1970 is achingly depicted and contrasted against the travesty, brutality and vengeance of a blood-thirsty & monstrous military regime that held an iron grip on a peaceful Brazil for 21 painful and agonizing years. The almost singular aim of the junta to protect its own existence could not be more effectively demonstrated than by the seeing & heartwarming tender acting of…
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The Substance 2024
Expertly directed by Fargeat, with over-the-top performances by Quaid, Demi Moore, and Margaret Qualley, the film owes so many nods to classics like The Fly, Carrie, Alien, The Elephant Man - to name a few.
Directors such as Kubrick, Cronenberg , Lynch, and Ridley Scott are so blatantly credited by Fargeat right through to a direct melodic reference to Kubrick’s 2001 or the spine chilling visuals in the Shining’s overlook hotel.
Its a pointed tale of body-objectification, which borrows so…
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The Brutalist 2024
A “once upon a time in America” - style soaking the viewer with breathtaking moments and of the struggles encountered by new arrivals doused in hope to make it in a new world where the welcome mat is anything but. While centred around late 1940s/ early 1950s America, barely tolerating the sacrifices of so many immigrants- it is a haunting and deeply moving epic that rings very true within the many components of parts of today’s American Society.
A little too long for its own good , it nevertheless does leave the viewer moved.
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