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The Dreamers 2003
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Lessons from The Dreamers:
- Referencing a film within your film does not make your film as good as that film (Damien Chazelle that applies to you too).
- There are too many films with a stereotypically naive American discovering the world of stereotypically pretentious and hyper sexual French people. I can’t actually name any others but this one already makes one too many.
- Intentionally making a film with shallow characters filled with shallow moments as a wink to…
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Two Ships 2012
I just really love a fuck you 30 minute short that doesn't bother with exposition. It just goes for it, it’s funny, it’s loose, it shows you these character’s lives and then drops you off wherever.
Laetitia Dosch is fantastic as a rambling and totally sincere character. She exudes anxious energy - you can definitely see why Triet kept working with her on Age of Panic.
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