Utterly incoherent, hokey, totally a blast.
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Revoir Paris 2022
REVOIR PARIS is a film about the ways that trauma and tragedy can irreparably shape all that it touches. Virginie Efira gives a standout performance as Mia, a survivor of a terrorist attack who must learn to live in a world that, for her, is forever changed. Efira he astutely captures her character's imperceptible shifts from being adrift to finding a tenuous sort of stability. Movingly, the film leaves space for perspectives from other survivors, a choice that fills out…
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When Spring Came to Bucha 2022
An intimate portrait of a strange moment in time: the days and weeks after Russian forces retreated from Bucha. There are notes of the absurd, the strangeness of life coexisting alongside such tangible death and grief. You can see Teshaiva's background as a photographer at work––this is her first film––in her steady, well-framed, unblinking, yet compassionate observation of the people of Bucha.
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Reality 2023
Brilliant, unnerving, perfectly done. Thanks to its complete reliance on the transcript of Reality Winner's FBI interrogation, REALITY feels like a black box play transformed into a film. There is a horror, a tautness to REALITY, as we watch the FBI interrogators "play nice," as they slowly reveal what they know, as Reality struggles to hold her ground and keep up. Everyone plays the script brilliantly, especially Sweeney, who encapsulates a woman trying to resist the inevitable even as the…
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