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Coup de Chance 2023

★★★½ Watched 09 Feb 2024

Like a good episode of ‘Emily in Paris’. Luc even pops up in one scene. Stock photo cinema, but in the best way possible. No tension, all breeze. Sanitized images of Parisian streets, corporate jazz, costumes that fit each setting perfectly (the button-down shirt after a hard day's work, the casual-but-cute knit sweater for brunch with mom, tweed jackets for when at the hunting cabin), relationships that do not make any sense. Quite enjoyable.
Stars in My Crown 1950

★★★★★ Rewatched 20 May 2022

Transcription of Pedro Costa’s introduction at the Cinematheque Stockholm, May 20, 2022:
"I don’t want to bother you with too much talking because if you know Tourneur’s film, they don’t talk much. They speak very softly. So, for now, two or three things... This is a very special film. I think Tourneur said it was his favorite of his own films. It must have been. It looks like something he wanted to do for a long time. It’s not a…

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Colossal Youth 2006

★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Aug 2016

In an essay about 'In Vanda’s Room', Thom Andersen writes that it has been critiqued for portraying poverty, issues of immigration, and drug abuse to the point of miserabilism. Defending Costa, Andersen writes that: “those who regard In Vanda’s Room as a misérabiliste … simply haven’t seen it … They have seen the actions but not the images”. One aspect of Andersen’s point is that the film doesn’t show images of the world’s misery, but its beauty. Adapting Andersen’s argument…
Antigone 1992

★★★★½ Rewatched 16 Oct 2023

Barton Byg, 2023.
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Objects in Time: The Tree and the Autostrada
The full title alone reveals that this is a film about time. And there has never been a time to be unconcerned with state power, human love and honor, and the devastation of war.
Much of the film is from the past: the stones from Sophocles’ time, the words from the times of Hölderlin and Brecht. But the voices, the bodies, the light, the air, and especially…

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