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Reviews

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  Lux Æterna 2019

  

  Ali Azizi ★★★½

  جریانِ پایان‌ناپذیرِ «شدن».

  گاسپار نوئه، فیلم‌سازی/سینما را آن‌طور که به‌ آن عشق می‌ورزد نمایش می‌دهد: حرکتی قاعده‌گریز/بی‌قانون، به‌سانِ چکشی سازنده— مخرب، آکنده از سرشاریِ ساختن، جریانِ همیشگیِ «شدن» [و نه…

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  Flowers of Shanghai 1998

  

  Diogo Serafim ★★★★½

  Hou rarely actually films drama here - he rather films its consequences directly, only interior scenes, only private dwellings, who is actually pulling the strings is the strucuture everyone finds…

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  Flowers of Shanghai 1998

  

  Zint ★★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Memoria 2021

  

  David Sims ★★★★★ 12

  ahahahahhahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YESSSSSSSS AHHHHHH YESSSSSS!!!!!

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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 5

  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…