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Drive My Car 2021
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One of the many beauties of cinema is its capability to leave you with an image or idea that lingers on well past when the credits roll (which, in the case of Drive My Car is, remarkably and painlessly, quite an extended amount of time). To captivate the human soul with a single shot is one of the great gifts delivered by the silver screen. A great film has a few of these, and a masterpiece has these in almost…
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Hot Summer Nights 2017
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Only good part of this movie is Timothee Chalemet wearing a Jesse Jackson 88 Trucker Hat, which I subsequently bought because of it. The drug dealing is cool too I guess.
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In the Mood for Love 2000
So I don't know if these are supposed to be short or long. So this comment may defy those conventions as well. Which is a fitting way to think about In the Mood for Love. A movie that looks into the face of easy and conventional and dares it to blink. Without getting into heavy plot details this is a film that is distinctly connected to a sense of space (Hong Kong), time (1960s) and culture (Shanghaiese Exiles to Hong…
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