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Heat 1995
I’ve seen this movie many times. But tonight was my favorite, because my wife and I stumbled wine-drunk into a little theater in Paris that was playing it with French subtitles. There was joyous laughter and some applause at Pacino’s “She’s gotta great ass!” line.
My point…life is beautiful.
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The Father 2020
Goddamnit aging can be cruel. This movie does a brilliant job of putting the audience in the head of a man with dementia. Reality, time, identity are all jumbled. This “not knowing what’s real” quality gives the movie an aura of mystery that I wasn’t expecting. Originally a play, I can see how it would work on the stage, but the story benefits from the cinematic approach, particularly the fluid production design — the settings bleed into each other more…
