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Femme 2023
Good writing and filmmaking force the choice of provocation to lie with the viewer. Femme delivers this choice with a subversive portrayal of an eye-for-an-eye relationship between an East London drag queen and the assailant of a hate crime committed against them by a closeted drug dealer.
Buckled with tension and bookend with violence, Femme explores psychosexual themes of retaliation, betrayal and shame. The shifting scale of imbalance between empathy and justification is woven masterfully among these characters as their…
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2002
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance follows a couple who resort to desperate and violent measures in order to secure a kidney transplant for his terminally ill sister.
Using irony as a volatile device throughout the film, Park Chan-Wook paints a bloodstained picture reminding us there are no winners in the game of vengeance.
True to its namesake, sympathy becomes the glue that links these characters together as a sequence of disastrous events unfold.
In essence: revenge is a double-edged blade.
Brutal. Twisted. Sardonic.
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Stranger by the Lake 2013
The perils of cruising in the land of milk and honey.
Stranger By The Lake follows Franck, a naïve optimist, who becomes infatuated with Michel, a sinisterly sexy stranger, and the relationship that unfolds between them on the rocky lake shores of a summer cruising spot.
A nod (or red handkerchief) to Hitchcock with slow-burning suspense, this film examines how one can get swept away in the wake of one’s own desire. Despite the explicit nature of the film, it leaves…
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