A masterpiece if you like soullessness and crude symbolism. Technically brilliant nonetheless.
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Capernaum 2018
Despicable. Megalomaniac. Inhumane.
Framed as a court hearing where Labaki plays the attorney for Zain, a detained juvenile suing his parents for “giving birth to him,” one cannot fail but notice a certain symbolism in Labaki's choice to play this role herself: she's playing a double attorney, and her plea is, at one and the same time, directed at the judge on screen and the world outside it. The film shows a court hearing while also aspiring to be a…
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Dogman 2018
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
All good films share substance with fairy tales and ancient myths, and all good art is ultimately, in one way or another, preoccupied with death. On the face of it, Dogman is a film about a father (and a failing husband) who gets involved with a criminal to make the sum of money needed for a trip he promised his daughter, but the unfolding of the plot plays on more mythical and primordial themes.
Dogs are tamed wildness, cast and…
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