I found an interview where Sandra Hüller seemed to indicate that she was playing a woman who could've done it, and to me it seems like she succeeded; the cerebral trick of getting the audience to question our ability to read innocence v.s. guilt, truth v.s. lies, is compelling for about half an hour, then gets a bit repetitive and worn-out, leaving me searching for other points of interest. The drawn-out argument at the climax reminds me of my film…
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Tony Takitani 2004
Downbeat Murakami meets lyrical, somewhat atypically pensive (as opposed to just philosophical) Ichikawa; the needs of the adaptation lure Ichikawa into abstraction, even expressionism, with a fragmented approach organized more around theme (loneliness, grief) than event, taped together with a voiceover that spills into the dreamworld of the film. In a way the most formally apropos depiction of a completely sealed-off and opaque main character that one could imagine, with the world conspiring to consummate his isolation.
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The Unbelievable Truth 1989
I started formulating a thought halfway through this movie that Hartley is basically the anti-Bresson, or perhaps one might call his style con-Bressonian; instead of removing movie affectation and performative flourish until all that remains is the skeleton of the act, which Bresson might call the truth, Hartley dials up the movie-ness, pitting his overworked artifice against a drab and intelligent formalism to arrive at an "unbelievable truth". Hartley pushes the rhythm of dialogue into something like mechanical, speeding through…
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A Month in Thailand 2012
This is the sort of film that seems somewhat unfashionable to make. The pictorial pleasures are not obvious; it is written–very well-written, I’d argue, but noticeably so; and it’s about small-s society, in a way like Metropolitan but in its own milieu.
It’s easiest to argue for Negoescu’s mastery of the medium by pointing out moments of essentially cinematic pleasure. For instance when our protagonist, disappointed and dejected, wanders into a ballet hall and ends up enjoying the spectacle for…
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