21 | Below the threshold of consciousness,
everything is seething with life—
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Perfect Days 2023
Lyrical, contemplative, Perfect Days is a largely non-verbal sequence conveying great emotional depth where often it would pass unnoticed. Intensity of feeling is given permission to breathe into the subtlety of ritual-like routine. Here, a quietly powerful poetry unfurls in suggestions: in a faint smile, a shine in the eyes, a face tilted to the sun. Wim Wenders presents us with a faithfulness to solitude and simplicity, a beautifully crafted affirmation of humility, modesty, empathy.
We follow the life of…
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Anselm 2023
The man lays himself in a position of surrender. And though his is a pose of vulnerability, laying flat and inert on the earth before towering stalks with their heads of blackened seeds leering over him, there is, somehow, the sense that the power dynamic is importantly angled to him. He sucks the colour from those wildly luminous sunflowers. Instead of enchanting us with a beauty only nature holds, arresting us in the clasp of the sublime, there is, heavy…
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The Double Life of Véronique 1991
Mesmerising, hypnotic. A delicately strung sequence, a tentative struggle, a projection of that irreplicable process— the straining of a soul at loss with itself. Kieślowski’s creation is an utter surrender to illogicality, to the impossible, to those forces that may govern us though we remain tragically unaware.
There exists pain that cannot be conceptualised or expressed with words; only through art and music. Your voice may stutter out of the strings of an instrument, may spill from the brushstrokes of…
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 1992
In a rough sketched quality, Petrov crafts a world steeped in a damp darkness. Figures hiss and yell in the dark and a man trundles along, thinking solely of suicide. But before he can rid himself of his bitter world, he dreams... Propelled into a world far from earth, though seemingly of the same substance, he stumbles upon harmony, peace. People bathe in sunlight, strolling in serenity, living in utter tranquility. But unknowing and unseeing, this man’s very presence leaves…