Porumboiu is a master at films where the whole is more than the sum of its parts, but exactly the opposite happens here. There's talk of surveillance cameras everywhere, making…
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Jojo Rabbit 2019
JOJO RABBIT (Taika Waititi, USA, 2019) 1
aka GRÜNES BUCH … mimicking the purgatorial experience I had last year here of seeing a feel-good movie about a historical atrocity that…
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Fluid Frontiers 2017
Another multiplicity of voices, the variety of poetries and also those reading them, each adding their own voice, many authors, many journeys. Very Straub-Huillet.
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Young Ahmed 2019
YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium, 2020) 9
This is not a film about “radicalization,” but the opposite. As the film begins, Ahmed is already, albeit only recently, under…
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First Cousin Once Removed 2012
80/100
The deteriorating life of a poet, depicted poetically. I've been aware of Berliner since Nobody's Business played NYFF in 1996, but I never actually saw that film, in part…
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Science Without Substance 2019
Rereading Binghamton Babylon and wandering through many of these filmmakers's films again.
This is Barnett's latest, most obstinate, effort. Immediately portends to share little of White Heart's textual complexities (though…
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Ralf's Colors 2019
At once a landscape film and an immersion in the mind of a schizophrenic, this presents an immediate moral quandary. Its depiction of mental illness seems romanticized, to be sure,…
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