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White Material 2009
One of Claire Denis' postcolonial texts, here a fable about violence and the ways cultural violence can lead directly to physical violence.
Huppert, always one of the great screen presences, is particularly workmanlike here, to the benefit of the film.
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Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
The titular donkey is one of the great film performances. It's perversely funny that Bresson's most memorable character is a donkey considering his opinion of screen acting, but man it's emotionally affecting.
One of the great heartbreaking endings of cinema.
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Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
This film is sub narrative. It’s merely a clipshow, or a greatest hits package of only the obvious hits, none of the more interesting deep cuts.
The worst best picture nominee of the decade. Maybe the 21st Century.
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Close-Up 1990
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There isn't much more for me to say about this film-- most of it has already been said and better than I could. It's such a beautiful look at the roles we play in our day to day, and the collision between art and "reality", whatever that is. This docudrama is one of the great Iranian films, one of the great 90s films, no. It's one of the great films.
Here is what I wrote about it for Abandoned…
