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Lord of the Ants 2022
A heartbreaking film replete with beautiful poetry and an infuriating insight into the homophobic Italian society that is willing to maim people in the name of love yet loving someone of our own accord is manipulation. Only issue is stretching the fictitious protagonist in historical events trope a bit too much but it's not overdone. Some have criticised this as the straightest gay film with no explicit depictions of homosexuality but given the fact that Aldo never identified with queer…
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Kantara 2022
Has all the familiar elements of South Indian action movies: the physics defying action sequences, plotholes, abrupt side character storylines and spicy entertainment. But also contains an unexpectedly complicated moral framework across three players in forest habitats of modern India: indigenous inhabitants surviving on a symbiotic relationship with nature for centuries, perpetuating their respect and knowledge through syncretic rituals and myths, which the legal framework adopted from the west fails to understand and constantly attempts to absorb into their black…
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The Queen of My Dreams 2023
I don't know why this wasn't it for me. It knows all the elements of theimmigrant genre and has everything laid out in front of you but something just feels flat. The tropes are too familiar, the dialogues sometimes formulaic and weirdly delivered, the narrative sequence is weird (and not even in the non-linear reminiscent way that The Persian Version pulls off pretty well) and while it does have its moments that shine through, most of them are muddled by…
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