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Joyland 2022
This is a great film and many others have put into why it is a great film but I have 2 main thoughts that are ricocheting around in my head:
1. I'm not sure if this is the case for all versions of this film, but the translation work for the subtitles feels tepid compared to the actual dialogue. At the fear of alienating audiences, I feel like they may have gotten rid of the syntactical quirks of Urdu, which…
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Private Lessons 2008
Lafosse's direction is really unable to elevate this from it's Lifetime Channel script. It's tense for sure, but fairly standard in structure, and if you've seen one film like this, you've seen them all. Probably more explicit than it needs to be, but you can't expect anything less from a European film. The most interesting thing in here is the volta (a Lafosse staple), which suggests a genuine trade-off, no matter how uneven.
