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  Review by Wyatt Fair ★★★★★ 13

  you keep waiting for something to happen and then realize it’s been happening the whole time

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★ 10

  Denis poeticizes the potentially reductive. Through her lens, it is colonialism that seems tribal and primitive to watching natives, and sexual repression rather than inhibition that corrodes the mind. The hard flesh of soldiers becomes part of the landscape, eroding their humanity into yet more sand for the desert. Only when it's too late can one finally join in the dance. Play me off, Olga.

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  Review by Karsten ★★★★½

  this is the rhythm of the night

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★★★ 11

  I watched this on my birthday when I was high on shrooms quarantining in Canada. They literally locked the door and I could not leave. So I made french toast and watched this. I rented it online from some local theater in Vancouver for $8 which felt nice because I felt like I was ~supporting a local theater~ I know whatever!!!!
  the dancing at the end made me sob like baby
  But here’s the real tea 
  Denis Lavant is so hot to me ): so hot )’: he’s like 4 feet tall and legit looks like a toad he’s so hot ))):
  happy belated

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  Review by Dirk Diggler ★★★★½ 7

  A beautiful, sad and thoughtful exploration of masculinity, ego, regret, and of jealousy so deep-rooted that it can destroy lives. Its almost entirely plotless, has hardly any dialogue and is slowly paced; everything is so magnificently understated and subdued to great, poetic effect. The performances are naturalistic and by its hypnotic visuals and rhythm (those training drills really have an almost musical feel to it), and its great use of music, it becomes a real treat with an ending so sad but so sublime.

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  Review by dani ★★★★★ 20

  Women are incredebly good at depicting masculinity while men are terribly bad at depicting femininity, and even men's image of masculinity is almost always "cowboys" like images that is extremely boring and therefore is usually sexist. Claire Denis in her turn depicts and deconstructs this conventional image of masculinity, she tells and much more precisely shows repressed emotions of the charaters whose flesh becomes part of the landscape, fretting the border between them and sand and rocks, Denis studies this fragile and insecure nature of men in environment that for most people is the most masculine thing there is - an army.

  Through the Denis' lenses the distance between the characters and the audience is justified in emotionally and sexually…

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★

  Post-colonial ballet. Serve the good cause then die.

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★★ 3

  google dot com how reach thru screen to touch movie

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  Review by ComradeDan ★★★★★

  When the dudes are rockin but there’s a hater in the midst.

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  Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  All movies should end with the main character spinning around on the ground by themselves while “The Rhythm of the Night” plays

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  Review by stevie ★★★★

  What's better than this. Guys being dudes.

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  Review by maddy ★★★★★ 6

  😳 When ur crushing on a guy so much that you abuse your position of power to commit sadomasochistic acts of cruelty towards him because your attraction to him is a threat to the dominant masculinity that is expected of you as a military officer in the colonial machine 😳