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Pasolini 2014
Really affecting portrait of/tribute to Pasolini by another wildly iconoclastic Italian filmmaker that takes the strange, hypnotic form of deliberately menial and opaque moments from the artist's day-to-day life peppered in alongside lengthy fantasy sequences envisioning his post-Salo creative projects that would never come to fruition, all contained within a bleak, mournfully paced dirge through the final days of his life that seems to suggest a personal and political apocalypse. Everything is slow, doom-laden, dark and sepia-toned; the centerpiece of…
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Irma Vep 2022
movies take me so far away. but love brings me back to you.
Playful, meta, candid, redundant, messy, exuberant, ultimately sort of life affirming expansion on Irma Vep (‘96) and Assayas’ entire life/legacy as an artist disguised as a remake. Opens on something of an honest, state-of-the-union reflection on contemporary cinema (superheroes, controversial castration, phone call after phone call, the silly exhaustion of international stardom) via its remake of a remake within a remake of a remake premise, and while it…
