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Parthenope 2024
Sensual, shiny, shallow. Dialectics of glamour and the grotesque. Italian af.
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The Childhood of a Leader 2015
Moody historical thriller with lush production design, stylish camera work, and complicated family dynamics? Seems to be Corbet’s thing.
Impressive first movie.
A little bit of a roller coaster for me with the ending (even though we always knew where it was headed.) At first I hated it. Hurt people hurt people… i.e. become Hitler? But then I thought about it more symbolically: Prescott is presented as the bastard child of the Treaty of Versailles. He stands in as the…
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Conclave 2024
This felt like if an Italian Aaron Sorkin got to guest direct an episode of House of Cards. I actually kept thinking that the cardinals cassocks had been color-corrected to “Netflix red.”
Bourgeois liberal anxiety predictably filtered through a totally sentimental conception of how power works: elite moralists privately searching their hearts for the least offensive way to maintain the status quo. Every moment of conflict resolved by a grandiloquent speech. Rather than what it is: cold-blooded vote whipping, actual…
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The Brutalist 2024
Good stuff. A film with texture and weight. Interesting, messy politics. Emotion. The epic scenes of sparks flying and soaring architecture and upside down statues of liberty, contrasted with period -specific depictions of drug addiction, pornography, fuckin jazz. It felt like that magical combination of really lived life but also larger than life life on the big screen.
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