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Reviews

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  Face 2009

  

  Alan Jeffrey ★★★★★ 4

  At last, the overwhelming release and inevitable end of Tsai’s dreams. Here, his attempts to make sense of the phantoms of the universal subconscious, to find light or at least…

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  Out 1 1971

  

  Diogo Serafim ★★★★½

  ‘vous êtes tous des rêveurs, vous n’êtes pas capable de faire rien’

  on the post-modern impossibility of universalizing a state of spirit, on the hegelian attempt to seek for totality…

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  Diary of a Country Priest 1951

  

  Lencho of the Apes ★★★½

  It took me about an hour to find my way into this, but once it clicked, it became the most rewarding Bresson I've seen yet. (Of 4.)

  I started with…

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  Keep Your Right Up 1987

  

  Alan Jeffrey ★★★★★ 2

  Perhaps their most lush pleasure to the senses. And yes, as it goes with what Godard/Miéville discovered and refined, it’s the height of fancy to delineate the accomplishment of an…

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  Too Early / Too Late 1981

  

  isabelle

  Returning to the Lumière Brothers in order to move ahead towards a new leftist cinema. Grassy landscapes, rural communities, workers leaving factories, the daily life of a people. Revolts described…

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  Four Nights of a Dreamer 1971

  

  brotherdeacon ★★★★ 2

  I'm somewhat astounded that the sum of sober persons in the film-watching world who have viewed Quatre nuits d'un reveur, (at least those still fit for youth's trials and love…

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  In the Darkness of Time 2002

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★½

  Fitting that Godard's two most wrenching, far-seeing shorts (this and Je vous salue, Sarajevo both make god-tier use of Arvo Pärt to absolutely hammer home his rare earnestness. This is…

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  Le Pont du Nord 1981

  

  Neil Bahadur ★★★★★

  I don't do this often - but I felt obliged to watch this movie again immediately after, haha. Not a whole lot to add - even though I've always loved…