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2009

½ Watched 22 May 2025

-- What The Fest @ Nova --

There's a paradox at the core of darkness. It holds both the absence of colour, but also every colour combined. It's most commonly associated with death, but also the primordial beginning.

Both readings work for this overblown assault to the senses. I was on board for the first person perspective and the setup with the Tibetan Book of The Dead. Even a bit of non-sequential storytelling? Nice!

Then good lord it just kept…

1963

★★★ Watched 21 May 2025

-- Melbourne Cinematheque @ ACMI (2/2) --

This is the most beautifully shot sexism I have ever seen.

The first act is crisply constructed, creating our tragic hero in Guido and his posse of producers/actors/designers exchanging languages and ideas freely (at a pace my screening's subtitles simply could not keep up with). It opens these questions of what an artist should sacrifice for their art, and how much of their lives are open sources for profit.

Then it simply... keeps…

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2023

★★★½ Watched 06 May 2024

Not a man or a woman, but a seceret third thing (French Dandy that makes the tiniest little moans when exerting any energy whatsoever)

2024

★★★★ Watched 27 Jul 2024

Does a fantastic job of making a linear and comprehensive story of a person who was infamously plural and undefinable.

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