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Maurice 1987
i can’t believe how this movie gave us so much in 1987 and how little we get in comparison almost forty years later. set before The Great War and after the trial of Oscar Wilde, knowing the climate for gay men at this time made the film’s stakes feel completely different. it was more like a period spy thriller. how long would they get away with it? who would find them out? would they lose everything, even their lives? the…
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Anatomy of a Fall 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
France’s Oscars committee didn't submit this for Best Picture, and i wonder if they remember another much lauded French film, The Return of Martin Guerre, which is based on a cornerstone legal case in French history about a similar question of whether any of us can know someone else. like that film, the trial unfolds inside a French courtroom (which is a very different style of court than U.S. courts and is fascinating all unto itself) and the film tries…
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