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In the Mood for Love 2000
All time!!! The first time I watched this I came away thinking "Tony Leung looks at her like he's about to die" but this time what really struck me was how little of the time he's actually looking at her. Often all you see is a hallway, the back of a shoulder, a mirror askew; when you do get to look a character in the face they're more likely gazing into their own thoughts than at each other. A filmmaker…
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The Aggressives 2005
Really touching to get a window into historical Black butch culture that I don't usually see documented. Standouts: the interviewees' overlapping but not identical social life with the ballroom scene, the number of similar discussions about gender presentation and trans identity to today (including prevalent transmisogyny, unfortunately), and the ways their lives change over the documentary. I wanted a lot more--this felt like it was only scratching the surface.
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Super Deluxe 2019
Very weird! Interlinked stories, extremely disparate in tone, leaning way overboard into trauma porn in extended passages. At the same time gorgeous set dressing, sometimes extremely funny even in translation, and with a real commitment to a certain humanist approach to patriarchal violence ... Not really successful but more interesting than plenty of more consistent movies.
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Jai Bhim 2021
The interleaving of courtroom drama with shoeleather detective work make this an engrossing, twisty story of injustice and resistance. The movie's view of the Irula community felt patronizing at times, a melodrama of meekness, suffering, and simplistic honor, but the actors brought personality and charisma to what could have been flat roles. The steady presence of Chandru's Communist commitments (a bust of Lenin on the side table, lodging with the party on a road trip) help anchor the story in its historical specificity rather than turning into mush.
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