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No God But the Unknown: Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci on Martin Eden
By Jordan Cronk “Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly
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I See a Darkness: Pedro Costa on Vitalina Varela
A moving study of mourning and memory, Pedro Costa’s revelatory new film offers an indelible portrait of Vitalina Taveres Varela, a fragile yet indomitable woman who makes the long voyage from Cape Verde to Lisbon to attend her estranged husband’s funeral, but misses the event itself because of cruel bureaucratic delays.
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Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 ft
The prospect of spending an hour and a half with people lacking in notable virtue, alluring vice, or any apparent interest, may seem like an unproductive exercise in forced empathy—but consider this skepticism a function, as opposed to a fault, of these tightly orchestrated, seemingly soporific character studies.
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For a Cinema of Bombardment
Although there have always been intrepid critics and cinephiles who have engaged with films belonging to the non-narrative avant-garde, there has existed a perception that such films, operating as they do on somewhat different aesthetic precepts, could be considered a separate cinematic realm, one that even the most dutiful critic could engage with or not, as he or she saw fit.
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