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Oasis 2002
Incredible take down of the callousness of urban Korea. Abandoned and used to money launder her grifting brother and sister-in-law’s apartment, severely disabled Hong-Ju is discovered by the half-wit joy rider Jong-Du, who is out of prison after being locked up for assault and battery, attempted rape, and manslaughter DUI hit-and-run.
After he nearly rapes her into unconsciousness, a romance of sorts begins to blossom. It turns out that this pretty, but difficult for normies to look at, young woman…
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L'Argent 1983
The doors and windows of bourgeois Paris open and close. Bresson dissects Tolstoy's moral tale of how the system favors those who have, and destroys the have nots.
There are just some incredible shots in this film, about how a petty crime has violent repercussions. Time and again Bresson puts his camera just out of the frame of the violence. A woman carrying a mug of morning coffee is slapped in the face, but we see the coffee cup not…
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The Wind Will Carry Us 1999
A poetic film about poetry. Set in stanzas like most of Kiarostami's work, with verses that return again and again (the meetings with the schoolboy Farzad, the trips to the cemetery, the chats across the courtyard with a pregnant hostess before and after the birth of her child).
It's an extraordinary dance between the urban and the peasant cultures of Iran, with Behzad finally realizing his crass disappreciation of the souls of his countrymen and women.
And with that self-realization…
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