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Mouchette 1967
After six Bresson films, I'm starting to think he is not for me.
In trying to figure out exactly why I can't seem to connect with his films are started looking at why others do. There does seem to be some aspect of Bresson that connects it to a sort of "universal" look at humanity which strikes a cord with a lot of people. Bresson talks about it himself with this movie saying "Mouchette offers evidence of misery and cruelty.…
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In the Mood for Love 2000
“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.”
In the Mood for Love's visual makeup and aesthetic choices soon start to fit a purpose once this final quotation is displayed at the end of the movie. We aren't seeing a story happen in the eyes of the present, but from a mind in the future looking back…
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Blood 1989
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is an interesting movie that I find hard to make heads or tails of. The gist of the story is easy to make out, but the way it is communicated is often elliptical and terse. There isn't any doubt to what is happening in a scene, but the connecting wire between the scenes is often puzzling. The dialogue is rather cryptic, vague, and the behavior of characters often leave be scratching my head. The underbelly of the movie reveals…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
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The most "double-edged sword" theater experience in that the audio is the main avenue in constructing the world in which these people live, so the surround sound does incredible work in conveying that experience, but the downside is you have people all around you. There was a moment where the sounds of screaming and gunshots reached a deafening loud climax amongst a bright red screen, only for that cacophony of violence to cut to an even louder silence. The silence…
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