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  Maria 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  Was not expecting to hear Parsifal
  Great costumes
  Too much Aristotle imo

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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★★½ Added

  The Nick Cave Gladiator II script will still be spoken of in hushed tones of wonderment long after this film was forgotten (which was in November).

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  Exotica 1994

  ★★★★★ Added

  In Exotica, Francis is a regular in the domain of the erotic, a Toronto strip club, but it isn't jouissance he is after. Meanwhile, Thomas maps and re-maps a potential erotic encounter onto the plane of more traditional entertainment, the opera. The sets, mood, lighting, costumes, photography, and acting are all brilliantly done. Egoyan has said he constructed the story like a strip tease, peeling off a layer at a time. In doing so he has made a melodrama that feels like a thriller and a "sexy movie" that is a moving meditation on grief and trauma.

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