Obviously beautiful but also strangely empty. Why make a sequel if you can’t come up with anything new to say? Repurposing a work as emotionally and philosophically rich as Blade Runner for this kind of aimless exercise in aesthetics just feels like such a waste.
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The Beaches of Agnès 2008
Memory stripped bare of nostalgia, cinema stripped bare of artifice, all bound together to chronicle a life that can only be understood backwards even as it keeps unfolding ever onward. The kind of movie that makes you question if you’ve ever truly watched a movie before.
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The Gullspång Miracle 2023
Okay but why was this literally the funniest film I’ve seen in months
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Past Lives 2023
What Past Lives gets so beautifully right is its depiction of life as a constant negotiation between the romantic and the pragmatic. Nora is the driven careerist who made a seven step life plan in middle school and then actually followed it through; but she also believes in “in-yun,” dreams in Korean, and giddily runs home to make a skype call the very second she reconnects with her old flame. Meanwhile, her counterpart Hae Sung is an idealist through and…
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