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Inside Llewyn Davis 2013
Didn't like it much in the moment, but looking back I feel more amenable. The movie does a nice job of thinking about the reciprocal nature of life as an artist, whereby the conditions of living in pursuit of art give meaning to the art itself, which in turn feeds back into life in pursuit of art. That is to say: art is always in some way about the act of making art, or what you give up to make…
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Rome, Open City 1945
The contraction of action and space that takes place when part 1 becomes part 2 jarred me at first; I wanted to interact more fully with the world of weird and slightly comical figures of resistance living in Pina and Francesco's apartment complex (Romoletto, the bedridden old man). But at some point one realizes that the story of resistance movements such as that fostered by the Roman communists, at least as presented to us here, is the story of moral…
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