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Reviews

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  Retribution 2006

  

  Diogo Serafim ★★★★½

  probably kurosawa's most expansive film - one can easily descant on the structuralist bias he's aiming for, however everything seems insufficient in comparison to the way he formally constructs each…

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  Crazy Samurai Musashi 2020

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★½ 4

  An essay on killing. Very good exercise on anti-mythmaking. It depicts the most famous battle of Miyamoto Musashi samurai career when he killed over 500 men in detail. It has…

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  Hovering Over the Water 1986

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★★

  It is like a Raul Ruiz film kept alll of its dream logic, but keep a straightforward shape even as it imagines all those possibles lifes to be. Monteiro made…

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  Silvestre 1981

  

  Keaton B ★★★★★

  This is one of Monteiro's finest and most important stylistic achievements. Adapted from a 15th century Portuguese fable, with echoes of the Bluebeard folktale, this narrative of a damsel who…

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  Silvestre 1981

  

  Diogo Serafim ★★★★ 4

  cinema as medieval tapestry. this is what christian metz meant when he said bazin's cosmogony failed to address syntagmatic and paradigmatic flows and their interaction, although this film wouldn't exist…

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  Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One 2015

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★½

  Miguel Gomes is a troll which is probably why this is my favorite part of the trilogy. It is the section that goes serious about things that really matter to…

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  Unrest 2017

  

  Devin Allen ★★★★

  Unrelentingly disturbing and compelling.

  Sequence one: The emergence of the sexual as projection onto and into nature (vice-versa). A somewhat more straight forward visual display compared to what comes next.…

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  Searching Eva 2019

  

  spacecowboi ★★

  everything that vice touches has this aesthetic. why