Not particularly satisfying overall, but Huppert’s always fantastic playing characters with dark, ulterior motives in this psychological drama from Chabrol.
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Nightcap (2000)
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The film that solidified Jack Nicholson as a leading star as this New Hollywood classic about alienation follows an empty shell of a man who decides to visit his estranged ailing father while trapped in a loveless relationship with his girlfriend.
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Civil War (2024)
Garland’s sometimes tonally suspect fourth feature isn’t as sharp or clear-eyed as it set out to be, but it is technically strong and works as a cautionary tale as journalists attempt to chronicle the chaos and violence that come from an imploding America.
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Oasis of Now (2023)
This Malaysian slow cinema mood piece may be slight with narrative but it re-centers the protagonist, a Vietnamese illegal immigrant who does odd jobs, in her own space of existential longing.
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8 Diagram Pole Fighter, The (1984)
Even the thinnest possible execution of a revenge plot cannot undo one of Shaw’s greatest martial arts movies, one that sees Lau creating new stratospheric heights for action filmmaking.
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Maps to the Stars (2014)
Cronenberg mixes the weird with the normal in this anti-Hollywood satire that is biting but doesn’t quite touch the clouds.
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Memory (2023)
Franco’s work features nuanced and quietly affecting performances from Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, as it explores the unlikely encounter between a man suffering from the onset of memory loss and a woman with unresolved trauma.
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Jesus, You Know (2003)
In what could be Seidl’s least provocative film, he tackles the notion of pure religious faith as a single, static camera is objectively set up in various churches to capture several devout Catholics in private conversations with Jesus.
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Girls Will Be Girls (2024)
Featuring finely-tuned performances, this Sundance winner breaks taboos in quietly restrained ways, about an Indian girl in a Himalayan boarding school who discovers love and sex amid a repressive patriarchal order.
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Exploring #11: Andrei Tarkovsky
‘Exploring’ features the filmographies of filmmakers that I’ve largely completed and celebrates them on the week of their birthdays.
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