Premiered at the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival, Shadow of Fire is a window to Post-War Japan’s scarred psyche. Tsukamoto lets us have a taste of the deep, obscure void that war created. We crawl through the ruins of an unnamed city and enter a tavern, one of the few houses that is still intact after a fire burned the nearby area, where a young woman sells her body in order to make a living. She never seems…
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Abo Jabal 2024
Quarto corto visto all’evento Waiting for Nazra, organizzato da Giovani Palestinesi Firenze ospitati da The Recovery Plan. Il corto parla un po’ da sé. Un documentario che ricopre uno spicchio di vita di una famiglia palestinese durante la guerra. Una madre parla della perdita di suo figlio, una bimba di 8 anni parla della perdita di suo fratello. L’immediata perdita della propria casa e un completo annientamento di prove che possano attestare il loro vissuto.
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All of Us Strangers 2023
I had high expectations for this, I mean Paul Mescal and THE Andrew Scott as a couple? Disappointed, it looks like a queer version of the ‘ghost whisperer’ series.
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The Girl with the Needle 2024
Macabre, claustrophobic and hypnotically raw. Shot in high-contrast black and white and beautifully framed, the story seems to get twisted in a non-stop series of unfortunate events. There’s no time for sugar coating, just pure suffering from the perspective of the marginalised female working class. As World War II comes to an end, we get to know Karoline, a young hard working woman who can barely stand on her feet. I could feel my body getting more and more tense…
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