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Today 2012
what can i say about this that will do it justice? this is a film that dances, not with its dialogue but with the very bodies on screen, how it manages to capture the intensities and textures of live movement is something i have no words for. such intoxicating sequences of movements, i will remember that moment of flexed hands forever.
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Haruhara-san's Recorder 2021
so light-handed, so spacious in its treatment of time and affect. araki chika is phenomenal in her performance here, so effortless as breathing. this is a film i will want to return to for the sake of experiencing it in its totality, this is film to be watched alongside others, on a big screen, not alone on a laptop. i love.
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Petite Maman 2021
i just... this left me glowing a soft sweet ache, with beautiful unyielding lines uttered by the two child leads. i will be thinking and feeling the reverberations from this for a long time -- this is a gift of a film, lifegiving and soulsustaining
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Us and Them 2018
bawled my eyes out. even as i'm aware of how the film tries to manipulate, monochrome sequences and almost tacky lines, it resonates so deeply that i am willing to be manipulated. why do we always forget parents are more than just parents? that they are allowed to be less than a parent, that they hurt, get lonely, make mistakes. i forgive, i forgive.
what happens to the people we left behind? what happens to the versions of ourselves we…
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