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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
Beautiful and beguiling, but even as I watched it, I knew I’d need to watch it again to grasp what was on the screen. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that it took me a while to catch on to its formal structure: there’s a present-day story that leads to the culmination of Mishima’s journey, there’s flashbacks to Mishima’s youth, and then there’s the dramatizations of some of his writings. It’s a lot, but it’s all gorgeous, aesthetically defying time…
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Amanda 2022
Bourgeois American indie sensibilities filtered through the lens of an adult child who, for a change, is a young woman who lives in the Italian countryside. Sometimes a bit cutesy, sometimes a bit meandering, but on the whole, creates a very pleasing texture. Benedetta Porcaroli is pretty great at being adorably irredeemable.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
This sequel is really just the second half of the first book, so it benefits from comprising the climactic last act of the original narrative, where all of the biggest action occurs. So it’s scaled up and louder, more sweeping in its action than the first movie. If you came for giant futuristic space craft, towering explosions and brutal fighting, you get all of this. But the movie that Villeneuve has fashioned from these already ornate building blocks is also…