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God Help the Girl 2014
At some point about halfway through the film I found myself asking the screen in front of me, “What is this film even about?” There are two different films playing. One is a story (though a very incoherent one) of a young women suffering from anorexia finding her way back into the world through music. And then there is a collection of music videos about charming young people doing charming things. The only relation between the two is that the…
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The Rover 2014
"Australia. 10 years after the collapse” reads the opening title card. We never get a clear picture as to what caused this collapse, and wisely so. The few hints writer/director David Michôd provides do much more to fuel our imagination to fill in the gaps – it doesn’t matter how this world came to be, what matters is how to navigate it. This is where Michôd’s mastery of tone and setting come into play, each small detail – the worn…