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Past Lives 2023
Every scene inherits a beautiful sense of intimacy which is simultaneously subtle and overt. The camera, somehow deliberately empathetic in every pan, perfectly underwrites that notion. There is a similar kind of ambiguity in the film's thematic tone. There is sadness, one might even go as far as calling it melancholia, but it's, again, deliberately comforting. The film constantly uses the space between the protagonists to convey intent, convention, and, most importantly, emotion. This is of course all thanks to…
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Throne of Blood 1957
"If you choose to build a mountain of corpses, build its summit as high as you dare. [...] If you will make blood flow, let it be a river, no, an ocean of blood."
Not only a meditation on the curse of ambition, but also (self-) perception. Hauntingly shot, intriguingly scored and acted. A full-force attack on the senses, leaving you with images and sounds burned into the mind.
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Civil War 2024
There is a cynical take on the emptiness and toothless nature of contemporary mainstream journalism to be found here. I think. Because at the same time this is such a mixed bag of mostly empty signifiers of all sorts that I'm having a difficult time giving it any credit whatsoever.
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I Care a Lot 2020
Every time I thought this film couldn't get stupider, it proved me wrong. The ending was kind of okay and actually made sense in a way I didn't expect the film to make sense after a certain point but was not able to save it from being hollow and, ultimately, pointless.
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Light & Magic 2022
E1-4: Dozens of incredibly talented individuals whose goal it is to turn their craftsmanship into art unite to work on several of the most relevant films in pop culture.
E5-6: Look what our computers can do.
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