Film focuses on fluctuating fortunes of famed fictional flimflammer and his friends and foes, featuring him firstly flourishing and finally flopping from his fixation on feckless facades. Following formative folly - falling for flirtatious family-member, fighting her fatality faking fiancé in face-off with firearms and firing first - film’s free-and-easy fulcrum flees in flight as fugitive for false fear of fine or forfeiture of freedom. Fleeced by fiendish freebooter and forced to footpad for five-miles, film’s figurehead files into fatherland’s…
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The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 2022
Applauded and aged almost-Austrian auteur asks and answers; are acclaimed academics actually accomplished adventuring artists? Accessing their analog autobiographical archives, auteur arranges archived accounts into album of Alsace-bred academics as they age. At first, allied and amorous associates' academic acumen is all too apparent as they anemically article and analyze and also are adolescent, aloof, and amateur in approach to art. As the Alsatians age, auteur's anthology and audio account appeal to accelerating accumulation of their artistic aspirations, attitudes, and…
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Where the Crawdads Sing 2022
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Spoken “Crawdads”: 2
Sighted Crawdads: 0
Singing Crawdads: 0
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TÁR 2022
TÁR is a taut, terrific, and technically tantalizing tale targeting a tremendous trailblazing talent teetering towards trials and tribulations as her turpitude threatens to torpedo her titles and trajectory. Taking turns as tortured timekeeper and totalitarian terrorizer, the titular Tár teases, torments, and tyrannizes her tuneful tribe into tame tractability with her temerity, turgid talks, and tête-à-têtes. Tangentially touches on topical topics as Tár toys with transgressive taboos - tells tall tales after tumbles, toughly teaches with trace of terror,…
