I keep coming back to the warm space that cinema offers with dilated pupils and an embrace that engulfs me whole.
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Good Grief 2023
A gorgeous study of grief and the way it unfolds non-linear, messing up one's perception of one's own emotions at times.
The cast is tender, the settings are gorgeous, but it's the emotions conveyed by Daniel Levy that moved me the most.
Just like his acting, his directing is elegant, precise and marvellously un-rushed. He takes his time with dialogue scenes that capture fleeting romantic chemistry or the complicity of established friendships.
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ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium 2019
A poignant account of the search for justice for the murder of popular Chilean folk singer Victor Jara who was tortured and killed on the day of the coup d'état in Chile, 11 September 1973.
Threading accounts from his widow then and now, alongside the search for the culprit, this short documentary feature shows brilliantly the fear of speaking out against the dictatorship and repressive regimes, even after all these years, while also painting a beautiful picture of the resilience of revolution and love through the figure of Joan Jara
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Suspiria 2018
Due to very minimal distribution here in France, I watched Suspiria in a suitably dingy small screen near Strasbourg's impressive cathedral, on an almost full moon, at 22.00 (the only screening available).
I can safely say that I've not been this disturbed, enthralled, fascinated and repulsed by a film in a long time.
One critic referenced Aronoffsky's "mother!" above but contrary to that positively nihilistic film, this one contains a poetic life force that is to reckoned with.
There is…
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At War 2018
Powerful and direct.
We are entered "in medias res" into the action of the employees of a factory in France, setting up to contest and fight the sudden closing down of their workplace due to its delocalisation.
As in Stéphane Brizé's previous film La Loi du Marché (The Measure of a Man, 2015), Vincent Lindon shines as the group's leader and, as the only professional actor in the film, he guides his costars with his usual generosity and warmth. As…