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Youth (Homecoming) 2024
Having now finally seen all three Youth films, it’s easy to think that Spring and Homecoming respectively are a prelude and postscript to the main event of Hard Times - and that may well be the case but this is certainly the most emotionally devastating of the three, and while this lacks the structural rigour of Hard Times (which is what makes this whole project seem monumental), this makes up for it in vitality. Going home is just not much…
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The Shrouds 2024
Everytime I see this, I can't look at my phone the same way. You can almost sense Cronenberg winging the screenplay, content to just see where the ideas take him - thankfully he's one of the few minds in cinema one almost begs to spend as much time as possible with. We only start with grief as subject, but the neverending dovetailing gives as precise and comprehensive of a view of the modern world as is even possible in narrative…
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The Godfather Part II 1974
Vito Corleone - I am immigrant child, alone with nothing
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The Fabelmans 2022
Edit: Advanced version of this review here - letterboxd.com/neilbahadur/film/the-fabelmans/6/
Do what your heart says you have to, because you don't owe anyone your life
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