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Great Freedom 2021
An ambitious fresco which strikes at every sense, overpowering in its immensity and haunting in its intricacy, and above all, its humanity. Meise’s film eschews cliché, opting instead for a meticulously choreographed reflection on connection, isolation and desire.
Great Freedom is the kind of film that has to be experienced in the cinema. From the outset, it is so obvious that it was made for the darkness of the movie theatre. But watch it at home and you will not be unaffected.
TLDR: this is how you do a moustache, boys
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The Last Showgirl 2024
The question I return to: who is this film for, exactly?
A weak script and frequently frustrating cinematography make for a film that feels simultaneously underbaked and overworked. I lost count of the needless ‘Pamela Anderson smokes a cigarette and twirls next to a fence’ scenes; her performance only really comes alive in the film’s final half hour, when the film finally appears to wake up… only to introduce more unexplored plot points and relationships. Most of the characters are…
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