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Anora | Fresh Takes

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Anora | Picturehouse Recommends

Sean Baker's raucous and thunderously entertaining Anora once again zeroes in on characters from the fringes of American society, just like his earlier films, Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket.

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Conclave

Conclave

★★★★½

Stellar cast and formidable performance from Fiennes.

Special mention to the turtles, Tedesco’s vape and Irish queen Sister Agnes’ curtsy 🙌🏽

Forget it, Ma, it’s small town China.

Love is a cage and a miracle, beauty is a curse and a lifeline! Isn’t it enough to be divine and desperately sad?

"[...] Of course, it’s amusing to watch grown men think so deeply about something as ephemeral as food, and many of their lines are unambiguously funny (“Wine is the intellectual side of a meal”). But there’s also something incredibly thrilling, moving even, in seeing people so utterly devoted to pleasure, to simply feeling good, to enjoying their life right now, in this moment, in this body. That their time and place is so remote in history, their world so utterly different from our own, only adds to this poignancy of watching others live in the moment."

My full review for The Playlist

the most hardcore food porn since Big Night or Babette's Feast, and every bit those movies' equal. an absolute joy.

"Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall begins with an interview between a writer and a student interested in her work. It’s a lighthearted, almost flirty discussion where double entendres are part of a seemingly harmless game. It is pleasurable for Sandra (Sandra Hüller), the writer flattered by the attention, but also for us, the audience, as Triet’s writing always is: casual yet precise, revealing of characters’ personalities but always awake to the degree of performance in their behavior — in…

R.M.N.

R.M.N.

★★★★

R.M.N. is Cristian Mungiu’s patient & disturbing examination of rising tensions & anxieties in a xenophobic Transylvanian village. Bleak cinematography with many unforgettable shots including a 17 minute long unbroken scene at a town hall meeting where the film’s themes finally crystallize in a simmering combustion of anger, frustration, fear & hatred. It took a bit to get going and I’m not sure everything coalesces as Mungiu suspects between Matthias‘ journey and the journey of the community. Still, it has one of the…

R.M.N.

R.M.N.

★★★★½

another wonderfully tactful panopticon of the (eastern) european society by Mungiu. the ocean of characters, words, sceneries let a topic hard to tackle with the means of cinema get to life, without falling out of subtlety.

parenthetically he creates one of the most horrific male protagonists I've seen in recent years, and has with Judith State and especially Macrina Barladeanu two mesmerising actresses by his side making this baby another sweet entry of the not-so-new-anymore Romanian wave.