Fiennes and Binoche reunite to retell the story of Odysseus’ homecoming through an understated prism of PTSD resulting from the Trojan War. An intelligent take on Homer that never revels in the violence that is part and parcel of the entire saga.
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Italianamerican 1974
A key film in Scorsese's body of work, an early and explicit example of his documentary fusion of personal and public Histories that he would develop to perfection over the years (and which largely contributes to his persona as the high priest of the cinematic past and film preservation). Scorsese brings an ethnographic attention to the oral testimonies provided by his parents that not only paint a vivid portrait of the Italian immigrant experience in New York but also illuminates…
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Public Speaking 2010
As entertaining and funny as Fran Lebowitz is, what struck me most about Scorsese's decisions in this character profile are the moments that he affords her to talk about how her experience of race, class, and ethnicity helped shape her distinctly New York persona. In this context, her invocation of James Baldwin as a primary influence in her life was a most welcome sequence, setting the stage for her schtick as the iconoclastic public intellectual.
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