More than a boy and his horse story, Lean on Pete was NOT the film I was expecting. It's a deeply sad film about abandonment and trauma, and the end is just plain cathartic.
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Invincible 2001
Invincible is a strange Herzog film, which is hilarious to type.
Here, we have a strange contrast of Tim Roth acting flamboyantly with nonprofessional and stilted acting around him, which creates maybe an intended effect of his hypnotist character's power.
Otherwise? Some flat story keeps this from achieving the power of Herzog's 70s and 80s fictional films.
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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…
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