When I get too invested in Animal Crossing

BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2023
"Even when I hate you, I love you."
I fell in love with Adolfo. From its very first shot, I was completely entranced.
It's a short but sweet debut film, and despite its small-scale, Adolfo is so many things: it's eccentric, offbeat, authentic, fascinating, heartfelt, funny, profound, powerful and just utterly delightful.
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The two central characters are so captivating, and their chemistry (as well as the actors' chemistry) is incredible.
Adolfo is probably one of…
Insufferable. It's almost like a parody of all the things I usually dislike about Godard's work.
A simultaneously shallow and incomprehensibly turgid examination of 1960s French capitalist/consumerist society, that doesn't actually say anything of note. Godard completely fails at crafting layered female characters, instead writing them as hollow exposition mouthpieces, who are subjected to his objectifying gaze.
It is obviously a very bold example of Counter cinema, and the vibrant visuals are nice to look at. However, this self-indulgent film is excruciatingly painful to watch.
Agnès Varda >>>>>>>>> Jean-Luc Godard