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Reviews

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  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

  

  Wu Yong ★★★★★ 2

  The singular event that erupts at the end has often been characterized as a brief, momentary (re-)assertion of one's autonomy from the oppressive mundanity of labour - an emancipatory albeit…

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  Les Misérables 1925

  

  Rafael Dornellas ★★★★★

  Truffaut wrote to him just before his death, “I hope I can, like you, maintain the faith and that immense curiosity for everything that is written, shot and acted…” (cited…

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  Struggle in Italy 1971

  

  Oscar Lau ★½

  The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary French filmmaker has in fact fallen prey to Maoism ideology. 
  And that’s nothing to do with the recurring black screen.

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  A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness 1977

  

  John_Lehtonen 3

  Some coherence is lost in the abrupt sequencing but the film's so caustic it ends up one of Suzuki's best. Traces the moving target of consumerism coursing through different strata,…

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  La Région Centrale 1971

  

  arkheia

  In some respects, Snow is positing an antithesis to Brakhage’s filmmaking, at least as far as Brakhage’s expressionism (the camera as representative of Brakhage’s eye) is at the opposite side…

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  The Lure 2015

  

  Jack Russo ★★★

  Poptimist Eurosleaze; twice the pace of Franco, double the spectacle of Rollin, played straight like a euphoric music video programming block that slowly but surely disintegrates into sea foam. Smoczyńska…

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  Sexual Drive 2021

  

  Jack Russo ★★

  Exactly what you'd expect from a film about sex where the most popular review is a positive one written by David Ehrlich; infinitely prefer my Japanese eroticism to be obscured…

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  About Her Brother 2010

  

  m ★★★★★ 2

  I think this film is what people mean when they say that art imitates life.