oblique, erotic, dark & featherlight at once - I entered an flow-fugue state within the first 10 minutes and stayed there for the rest of the film (been watching lots of these recently: etel adnan’s motion, antónio reis and margarida cordeiro’s ana, tarkovsky’s mirror), only surfacing every now and then to burn a captivating image/fragment into my brain. Will demand a rewatch!
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Ana 1982
some really beautiful images and ideas, very painterly, but the pastoral nostalgia starts to grate after a while, even for someone with an above average tolerance for that sort of thing. drifted in and out of consciousness and had many other thoughts for most of the 2 hours but not in a way that I hold against the movie. more like it staged the atmosphere for that state of sleepy dreaming
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The Substance 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Cynical, artless, irony-poisoned pastiche.
This is a shockingly cruel film where the moral logic is that ugliness serves as a divine punishment for women’s vanity and hubris—since, of course, to be ugly is the worst thing any woman can be. It’s a “feminist” movie that punches down, and the punchline is the spectacle of the aging, grotesque, monstrous body. It’s somehow too obvious in its smug social commentary, yet mean-spirited at the same time. Not to mention that the story…
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The Seventh Seal 1957
I was most struck by how far a throw this was from Persona, and how it was much less self-serious than I expected. I mean laugh out loud funny, but also comic in the Hegelian sense: “the ruling principle of which is the contingency and caprice of subjective life.”
Here, the silence of God is the Unknowing of Death, and this unknowing is portrayed without bitterness nor recourse to an easy reprieve. Rejecting the comforts of religion and the comforts…
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