'The cameras suddenly zoom in on what they are filming. They zoom so much that he can distinguish the clothing a man is wearing, the design and the colour of the fabric. But this proximity alarms him.'

A beautiful and terrible documentary, in the romantic not derisive sense. I say that partially because I spent its runtime mentally excavating said beauty from the sheer and formidable weight of its subject matter - that being real footage from attacks on Syria,…

A gorgeous, modest, bleak debut which uses familiar tropes and images in wonderfully uncomfortable new ways. Best Wishes To All leverages its audience's position against them to create unease which rattles along at the level of the obvious, but excels with the implications of the insidious. Kotone Furukawa and Koya Matsudai are both fantastic... and I shipped them so hard! There are handfuls of great quotes in this script too, though to include them might give away elements best experienced…

Edit: If you’re reading this, I CHALLENGE THEE

I suspect it will quickly become a clichéd thing to say about this film, but The Brutalist made me tearful a lot, and physically shook me at points. It moves and is immovable.

I cried about inspiration; about the client relationship vs the muse; about collaboration and dedication(s); about the holocaust and the people surviving and trying to comprehend its aftermath; about bringing together and shattering apart; about the cyclical dream of…