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35 Shots of Rum 2008
A perseverant meditation on weak connections between people— connections that are not always founded by a successful few first impressions, but are those that are just as well made from the degradation of stronger ones from estrangement or a mutual need for distance. Yet these fleeting and transitory transactions between people carry an important dynamic: there is a desire here to gain or regain closeness, and less of a fear of finality in ending them. Denis’ apartment metaphor is essential…
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Movie Dementia 1986
Hi everyone,
I made a subtitle track for this which should be the first English version of this film. You can find that here
Carlos Reichenbach's Pierrot le Fou for a Brazil newly rid of its military dictatorship. It's still a snarling portrait of the bourgeoisie escaping its bourgeoise mechanic but here informed with more of a sense of pointed escape than reckless abandonment. The irony here is that man's escape is yet another one of its constructions: in Fausto's…
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Copacabana My Love 1970
Yellow, Green, Green, Yellow... Mr. Sganzerla!
Rio is a city without sound: no passing of cars, no rustling of sheets during sex, and not a dead body falling to the floor... there is only its dialogue elevated by decadence to the sounds of Gilberto Gil. Along with this silence, Copacabana moves on the irony of how it tricks its camera to mimic observation as an ethnographic film—zoning in on its characters' depravity and desperate spirit with distant intrigue as if…
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Bo Burnham: Inside 2021
Truly impossible to check the ironypoisoned, misanthropic and depressed boxes and not evoke a dead-on Father John Misty. Otherwise it's Collegehumor reminiscent content. All the musical parody here has been done to death and refuses to be memorable.
The greatest artistic feat of the next few decades will need to be turning our generational depression that's practically become our zeitgeist into tactful and individualistic art while not pointing at the camera into the audience and rhetorically begging people to relate.…
