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  Thangalaan 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  A convulsive anti-caste epic about the ecstasy and tragedy of gold, driving English colonialists and Dalit miners equally mad. Call it TREASURE OF THE KOLAR GOLD FIELDS.

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  Maya Miriga 1984

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Jan 2025

  An Ozuesque drama about the void that is left when you marry off your children, filled with pillow shots of lived-in rooms soon to be emptied. There is also a very cute baby.

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  No Escape 2015

  ★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2015 7

  It turns out there was an escape. This is what I call the ol' switcheroo.

  This is a decent "save the white people from the other people" movie, but on the Brosnan scale I give it five out of five Brosnans. Some excellent Brosnan-ing here.

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  Bonjour Tristesse 1958

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Nov 2012 1

  A tragic film about skin care. No matter the defenses, there will be sunburns and wrinkles and age. Even the immaculate Jean Seberg slathers face cream onto her cheeks. Preminger choreographs these narcissists in the most astonishingly complex widescreen compositions in his career. Privileged moment: the maid chugging a beer at the extreme left edge, as main characters natter about a casino in the middle ground.

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