A pompous, energetic extravaganza bursting with musical magic! In the second half, I felt more clearly that the transfer from stage play to screen was no longer quite as gallant as at the beginning, but the more episodic structure towards the end didn't take away any of the fun. The sets and choreography are impressive, and the film also uses Oz as an example to pose the question of how fascist systems can arise and why even those we would not have expected can become the beneficiaries of those systems. It's cool, contemporary and a great cinema experience!
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The quality of the animation is wonderful, the story exciting (and includes my favourite horror trope: creepy space rock!) and told with great interest in quiet moments. Often we are only allowed to listen to the locations that the film presents to us in hand-painted 2D animation: What do the house, the floorboards, the grass, the leaves in the trees, the street in the village sound like? This focus on the auditory level gives the two-dimensional images a three-dimensionality that, in my opinion, is unrivalled in animated film.
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The Holdovers 2023
The film camouflages classist, patriarchal cynicism with a conservative world view and sells it as sweet eccentrism. The key scene takes place in a diner: The protagonist wants to buy alcohol for a minor, the female waitress explains that this is not allowed. In a moment of completely derailed “character growth”, the protagonist rebels against this rule, insulting the waitress as a “bitch” and the store as “fascist”. A Walter White moment that turns against those who didn't make the…
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