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In the Mood for Love 2000
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The neighbors return home unexpectedly, drunk, bedeviling, eager for (at least) eight rounds of mahjong. In this moment, In The Mood For Love boxes in its despondent leads and finally brings them face-to-face with the duplicity of their affair Rehearsal and the feelings it’s beginning to unlock in them. This is where the film breaks from the ordinary to become a swirling sensation of slow, dreadful, melancholy loss and a titillating suggestion of new love sparked. The film’s color palette…
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The Player 1992
Extremely meta satire of Hollywood with lots of heart and tongue-in-cheek dialogue that espouses the lunacy of industry development and how easy it is for a artistic man to be eaten by the Hollywood machine. Excellent camera work with impressive oners, but ultimately fairly surface level and uninterested in interrogating the deeper ideas it’s playing with in regards to capitalism at a wider level.
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Masculin Féminin 1966
Stylish and politically acute, Masculin Feminin paints a contemporary picture of the French man and woman and their inability to communicate with each other or engage in healthy relationships. This is painted over the background of political awakening and a study of objectivity. People lie, questions are ignored, philosophies are pondered.
The film captures the poignancy of affection and the one-way direction that can often exist. Madeline keeps Paul around because she likes his affection but doesn’t really care for…
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