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The Holdovers 2023
It's a lovely little tale about loneliness and loss told through three individuals forced to share a depressing time and space as the holiday spirit cheers up the world around them. But, both happiness and grief exist outside the discursive realm. And these three continue to teach each other little lessons about both as they form an unlikely bond. Christmas love finds its way to their lives, not through grand unexpected events, but through regular moments where human beings leave…
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Kinds of Kindness 2024
Spanned across three very different stories, individuals embark on a quest to chase what they believe to be their purpose. What follows is a grotesque dismembering of the comfort of purpose, almost always glorified with the illusion of choice, and mystified with the claim of destiny. The film seeks neither to reject the concept of choice, nor to secularise and/or humanise destiny. What it unfolds is a far more intricate, if not unsettling, interspersion of the two, embodied in our…
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