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IFFR opinions on the last four movies I saw over the weekend.
Girlhood was #BanlieueExcellence. Although many of the events fall in the line of clichés, the movie brushes against the realism of stereotypes while still making the characters feel human. A very effective synth music score sets the mood but particularly noteworthy is that the movie uses a lot of fake-out scenes. Scenes that built up to make you assume one thing is going to happen, but then swerve organically into a different direction. It's noteworthy because often you're happy that the thing you assumed would happen isn't going to happen, but the alternative we get doesn't offer much hope either.
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Man On High Heels combined the best of the South Korean thriller with low-key wacky humor that comically humanizes the macho cop at the center who feels like a woman. Features one of the best lines of the festival when an ugly fat post-op tranny reveals that he's actually a real woman who couldn't get a man so it worked out better to pretend she's a post-op tranny. Meanwhile people getting wrecked the fukk up like we want from our South Korean thrillers.
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness is one of those great documentaries about nothing. It follows Miyazaki primarily, as well as studio producer Suzuki and fellow director Takahata during the production of The Wind Rises and The Tale Of Princess Kaguya at Ghibli. Three old men that are the masterminds behind one of the world's biggest animation studios, a studio that looks like a greenhouse hobby shack where a bunch of people sit side by side humbly drawing frames all day, the lady delivering tiny dairy bottles has daily chats with the world's greatest living animator while he clumsily looks for change and a cat walks around like he owns the place. And seeing as people stop their work just to hold the door open for the cat, he might actually own it. Meanwhile Miyazaki talks about a bunch of stuff, varying from his work to life itself and everything inbetween. But I'm sure that even if you have no interest in anime or the studio, you'll be grossly entertained.
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When Marnie Was There, the last film made by Ghibli now that production has halted. Like The Secret World Of Arrietty before it, director Hiromasa Yonebayashi adapts a western children's book, which means the story and the execution is a lot more traditional than most of Ghibli's movies, but the craftmanship is as strong as ever. The most emotional the movie got was realizing this was the last Ghibli movie we're gonna see for a while.
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Girlhood, French coming of age drama about a black teenage girl in the Parisian banlieues. (note: not filmed over the course of twelve years)
Man On High Heels, South Korean cop thriller from lesser established semi-arthouse director Jang Jin about a macho cop with one big secret... he feels like a woman trapped in a man's body.
The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness, documentary about the inner workings of the legendary Studio Ghibli during the production of what would become Hayao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises.
When Marnie Was There, the last completed film of Studio Ghibli before last year's announcement regarding the restructure and potential ending of the studio.
Girlhood was #BanlieueExcellence. Although many of the events fall in the line of clichés, the movie brushes against the realism of stereotypes while still making the characters feel human. A very effective synth music score sets the mood but particularly noteworthy is that the movie uses a lot of fake-out scenes. Scenes that built up to make you assume one thing is going to happen, but then swerve organically into a different direction. It's noteworthy because often you're happy that the thing you assumed would happen isn't going to happen, but the alternative we get doesn't offer much hope either.
Walked out like
Man On High Heels combined the best of the South Korean thriller with low-key wacky humor that comically humanizes the macho cop at the center who feels like a woman. Features one of the best lines of the festival when an ugly fat post-op tranny reveals that he's actually a real woman who couldn't get a man so it worked out better to pretend she's a post-op tranny. Meanwhile people getting wrecked the fukk up like we want from our South Korean thrillers.
Walked out like
The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness is one of those great documentaries about nothing. It follows Miyazaki primarily, as well as studio producer Suzuki and fellow director Takahata during the production of The Wind Rises and The Tale Of Princess Kaguya at Ghibli. Three old men that are the masterminds behind one of the world's biggest animation studios, a studio that looks like a greenhouse hobby shack where a bunch of people sit side by side humbly drawing frames all day, the lady delivering tiny dairy bottles has daily chats with the world's greatest living animator while he clumsily looks for change and a cat walks around like he owns the place. And seeing as people stop their work just to hold the door open for the cat, he might actually own it. Meanwhile Miyazaki talks about a bunch of stuff, varying from his work to life itself and everything inbetween. But I'm sure that even if you have no interest in anime or the studio, you'll be grossly entertained.
Walked out like
When Marnie Was There, the last film made by Ghibli now that production has halted. Like The Secret World Of Arrietty before it, director Hiromasa Yonebayashi adapts a western children's book, which means the story and the execution is a lot more traditional than most of Ghibli's movies, but the craftmanship is as strong as ever. The most emotional the movie got was realizing this was the last Ghibli movie we're gonna see for a while.
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