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  • Breaking the Waves
  • Godland
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  • The Godfather Part III

    ★★★½

  • Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

    ★★

  • L'Homme Machine

    ★★★★★

  • The Kiss

    ★★★

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  • Shoah

    Shoah

    ½

    Shoah is a bad film.

    That it fumbles a narrative of such devastating import is especially embarrassing, but my central complaint about the film concerns poor form: specifically, Lanzmann’s overbearing and repeated insistence on forcing the viewer through the whole circus of translation. Every single time a question is asked, the correspondence plays out in full: Lanzmann > translator > interviewee > translator. It is this, rather than any especial quantity of these precious historical voices, that makes for such a massive clock-buster…