6.18.2022

2021 pt. 2

Uppena

This may be something close to a prototype of what I like in Telugu cinema. It has the romance, some comedic energy (maybe lacking there), the violent force threatening, and an overall respect for the cinema as a place made for the viewer. I fits in piece with all the Telugu movies I saw in this period--where the spring stretched to summer. A year later (or so) it feels like a significant period a lifetime or two ago.

Murina

At the beginning of my movie period, I frequently watched a lot of these woman-led indie and foreign movies on Netflix. I'm glad I'm experiencing this welcoming feeling again. This goes especially well with the director's earlier short led by the same girl. It starts inside pleasant summer feelings and expands as the season continues and concludes.

Drive My Car 

The way Hamaguchi describes cinema tends toward the thesis I would adopt if forced to construct some ideological basis. This long-flowing opus built from suspect source material is further confirmation of his abilities as an entertainer.

House of Gucci

Only just a gray and dreamy romance in a different period--everything adopts the 80s and 90s now. The narrative is honorably abrasive, as indicated in the variance of its reception. The subject and plot calmly flow downstream, collecting onlookers and their sensitivities, until a final discharge rebirths reality for all who endured--in or out of the know.

Rang De

A zombie Dubai shines bright and streaming; this is our home--this city of modern angles, desires, non-desires, and toxic romance. Nithin sticks his head into every place he finds, always tailed right behind by Keerthy's schemes and initiations. This is more boilerplate than the other Telugu film I mentioned. A little entrepreneurial study lab on the side; a hustled lifetime of wealth in Dubai. Stunning and wonderful material in every way. I love the way this industry seems to just unleash capital into the movie industry to create the broadest art possible; don't lose yourself, it's just a job...

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