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Pacifiction 2022
Albert Serra’s first entry in the Cannes competition is a sublime work of art that I’m sure will linger as one of my favourite films of the decade. I only managed to see two films in the competition and by coincidence both had colonialism front and centre; the droopy, unwholesome mess that was Claire Denis’ Stars at Noon, set in present day Nicaragua, was the other. Where Stars at Noon struggled to know how much to commit to, and position itself within…
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CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans 2018
There is a sense of liberation to the way Dumont approaches social dynamics, pushing familiar human behaviours, impulses and reactions to breaking point through exaggeration and absurd distortion, without ever losing sight of the cultural particularities they are fixed within and shaped by. Like his other films, the political dimension in CoinCoin seems like an extension of a deeper concern with how humans think and behave as individuals and as collectives, how we classify ourselves and each other, and the…