Why can’t I get enough of the slo-mo sequences with the same score – why don’t they get repetitive, why don’t they feel superfluous? Why did I like this when I couldn’t stand Chunking Express?
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Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma 2001
What is he saying with this choice of format, this style? I don’t know. The parts of this where I know what he’s talking about – such as the Hitchcock segment – I can’t say that the format/style adds something.
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Tove 2020
Biopics are difficult, and this one struggles with a few problems that often come with the genre, most notably here: what to include and not when representing a historical figure on screen within 116 minutes. Tove chooses to focus on the relationships and sexual identity of Jansson, and in a way it’s a coming-of-age story set in this particular time in history. This is interesting to me and the film conveys things not commonly seen in cinema, such as the subtleties…
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Perfect Days 2023
In a conversation with Kelly Reinhardt and Joanna Hogg (following the releases of Showing up and The eternal daughter), moderator Dennis Lim brought up the subject of ‘small films’, something either or both the film makers works had been described as. Reinhardt, if I remember correctly, expressed that her ambition was to make small films, while Hogg found it patronising. I came to think of this while watching this film – it can be said to be one. It omits, hints…
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