God, I love Wong Kar-Wai! Great film about identity, loneliness and love, but it's so much more fun than that. For such a constructed, motif-heavy movie, Wong never lets the brushstrokes get in the way. This is a technical film but there's great artistry here and the technique never feels like it's there for its own sake. Loved it!
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Viridiana 1961
I can understand the praise this movie gets considering the time and place it was made, but it feels more like a relic today. The ideals that Bunel is undermining don't feel all that present to me, and so the satire seems a little redundant. Fascist Spain was a very different place and the context of Franco inviting Bunel back to Spain to make what turned out to be Viridiana is important to understanding this movie. That being said, I'm…
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