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2019
Still need to see DeMille's, Fleming's, Rossellini's, Preminger's, and Besson's Joan of Arc movies, but I'd be surprised if any of them have a sequence as sublime as the honour guard ceremony that occurs early on in this one, so for now I'm calling this the most beautiful of them all.
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2019
Still need to see DeMille's, Fleming's, Rossellini's, Preminger's, and Besson's Joan of Arc movies, but I'd be surprised if any of them have a sequence as sublime as the honour guard ceremony that occurs early on in this one, so for now I'm calling this the most beautiful of them all.
Reviewed here.
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2012
I’m trying to understand the near-unanimous gushing over this, since I had, and still have, a hard time seeing it as anything other than an elaborate ploy to allow a depraved man to cry and upchuck his sins in front of a wide audience, thus absolving him to an unsanitary degree. We even have to endure a late crucial scene twice; in case it only partially got the desired results the first time, Anwar sits down to view it again,…
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2014
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Reviewed for Cinema Scope here.
That's ~7% of what I currently have to say about this film. I'm by no means "a Godard," (of the 19 other features of his I've seen to date, my current second favourite is Alphaville, which scores a stingy 6.7 on the Richter scale) but for my money this is, in 2014 and ~3250 films into my cinephilia, the greatest cinematic achievement I have seen. That it made me burst into tears, for reasons still…
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2012
I’m trying to understand the near-unanimous gushing over this, since I had, and still have, a hard time seeing it as anything other than an elaborate ploy to allow a depraved man to cry and upchuck his sins in front of a wide audience, thus absolving him to an unsanitary degree. We even have to endure a late crucial scene twice; in case it only partially got the desired results the first time, Anwar sits down to view it again,…
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2014
Liked 1
Reviewed for Cinema Scope here.
That's ~7% of what I currently have to say about this film. I'm by no means "a Godard," (of the 19 other features of his I've seen to date, my current second favourite is Alphaville, which scores a stingy 6.7 on the Richter scale) but for my money this is, in 2014 and ~3250 films into my cinephilia, the greatest cinematic achievement I have seen. That it made me burst into tears, for reasons still…
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