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Let the Sunshine In 2017
Juliette Binoche Lights the Torch for Older Women in 'Let the Sunshine In'
Mature-aged Isabelle is an esteemed Parisian painter who, post-divorce, yearns for authentic romantic connection. Isabelle's journey is marked by a deep sense of desire, with equal measures of susceptibility and fortitude, as she encounters a string of men who fail to fulfil her needs.
The creative collaboration of Let the Sunshine In (2017), is a French, female, tour-de-force. Directed by pre-eminent French auteur, Claire Denis, the film…
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The Piano Teacher 2001
From the outset, Michael Haneke's 2001 psychological drama, The Piano Teacher, entraps the viewer in the tightly wound, claustrophobic internal world of Erika Kohut, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who sleeps in the same bed as her toxically overinvolved mother. By day she is a slave to the rigidly structured institution of classical music training, and by night she is tyrannised by the domineering histrionics of her emotionally manipulative mother.
As the screw is wound ever more tightly on the…
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Immaculate 2024
Hackneyed, cliched, and borderline comical. Immaculate is a joke of a film.
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Earwig 2021
Earwig, Lucile Hadžihalilović's first English-speaking film is based on the book by Brian Catling about a girl with teeth of ice and the troubled middle-aged man paid to care for her.
A portrait of disquiet, think David Lynch meets Edgar Allen Poe, this repressed arthouse horror is at once mesmerising and baffling, leaving the viewer in a perpetual state of confused captivation.
I suspect Earwig may polarize audiences. The cloistered ambience and deliberate glacial pacing of the film may not…
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