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Poem 1972
Akio Jissoji is an incredible visual stylist. So much of the imagery that he and Masao Nakabori is simply incredible. They push just how much darkness that you can get away with for the film stock at that time. Having no fear having portions of scenes in entire darkness. And has a lot of fun playing with sources of light within that darkness. Like when Jun is patrolling the household at night with a flashlight in hand and the beam…
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The Holy Girl 2004
The way that Lucrecia Martel approaches the budding sexuality of a teenager in the The Holy Girl it quite interesting. It is the story of a young girl with nothing but a religious compass to judge things, and in the fallout of an act of sexual aggression interprets it the only way she knows how, compassion and salvation. This flury of confusing and misplaced behavior is perfectly captured by María Alche's nuanced performance and enhanced even further with Martel's disorienting…
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Lacombe, Lucien 1974
At one point the character Albert Horn, a tailor that finds himself stuck in the middle of the power trips of Lucien, exclaims "It's funny... I can't manage to hate you completely." And that is the perfect encapsulation of the film. Lucien is a detestable character. Right from the get go there is a great deal of hatred and cruelty within him. This is a joy to him when he kills an animal and he is entirely combative with other…