(1) Overreliance on 'needledrop' approach to music throughout — from the opening introduction scene to the closing slo-mo walk.
(2) As an homage to a certain kind of 70s / 80s British horror film I of course appreciated it.
(4) The attempt to create an analogue between the general bad vibes of racist politics (e.g. an explicit rivers of blood reference, placed here on par with the attack-dog robot from series 3/4) and the 'what if she was imagining it…
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Yoko 2023
Japanese Foundation prefaced with a director's statement: he said he'd made 'about' fifteen films. Then he did, I believe, a bow of respect but he was so close to the camera that he may well have been ducking out of frame.
Yoko = non-verbal due to historical mistreatment, wisely never explicitly explained. An interesting exposition notes two specific acts by her father. The expressionism of his ghost appearing at first is unsubtle, borne out of the POV-enforcing sound mix at…
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First in 'At the Volta with James Joyce', Glasgow Film Theatre, part of International James Joyce Symposium.
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