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High and Low 1963
Going into this on the back of discussion with a friend that doesn’t do “foreign films”, I was perhaps imbued with the extra determination to see this as ‘good’, to prove a point. I needn’t have worried though, because it’s genuinely brilliant standing on its own.
We spend the first hour purely in an apartment building, with an almost play-like routine of changing scenes but not scenery, high above the city yet claustrophobicly contained. Once we open the curtains (literally)…
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