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The Brutalist 2024
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An incredible feat of craft let down by a story no deeper than the puddles gathering on the flat concrete roofs of Laszlo's oeuvre. A wealth of huge, serious subjects and not a shred of a new idea on any of them! The acting, music, set design and cinematography are all astonishing, perhaps even perfect, but The Brutalist, drunk on its own grandiosity, proves you can't make a Paul Thomas Anderson film without the intellectual rigour. Characters undergo no meaningful…
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Hard Truths 2024
Sometimes a film challenges your expectation of what cinema can be, what it should be. Hard Truths drew forth a well of profound emotion for me not just through its incredibly drawn characters, but equally for realising the empathetic power of the medium. This is a vital story that focuses with real honesty and intent on a woman usually cast to the edges of the frame and doesn't pander with straightforward answers to its difficult questions - what makes us…
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Isle of Chair 2020
This almost made me cry!!! So so so beautiful, gentle and heartwarming. We cannot control everything in our lives but we can trust things will turn out well if we do our best
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Past Lives 2023
Floored by this film's sheer depth of emotion; I was in bits for the last ~20 minutes having teared up at least twice before. Past Lives washes over you like a long-forgotten song you used to love, simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar, heartbreaking and achingly beautiful. And that soundtrack!!!!! Pure poetry, I am stunned.
N.B made for a great double bill with Passages
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