Gentle understanding.
Valeszka Grisebach's gorgeous, gentle (my favourite word this year, it seems), brilliant Western, 2018.
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Sometimes you watch a film about a girl who destroyed everything, and you feel that it is about you.
Melancholia, Lars von Trier, 2011
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Can one laugh at sadness?
Yes, and it can be really, really sweet and heartbreaking at the same time.
Tel Aviv On Fire, Sameh Zoabi, 2018
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Sometimes a film becomes meaningful because others make you see it through their eyes.
I am not a witch, Rungano Nyoni, 2017
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I cannot wait for an opportunity to rewatch (and screenshot all of) this film, which I loved so, so much because I knew every second of it.
The wonderful Thomas Schubert as Leon - and also as a version of some of the most beautiful people I know - in Christian Petzold's Afire (Roter Himmel), 2023
(Image from the vastness that is the Internet)
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And what film did you find sexy & beautiful but boring?
Passages, Ira Sachs, 2023
(still from the internet, because Ben Whishaw is gorgeous)
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Sometimes films are gentle because people they portray are gentle (and you wish you could share them - the films, not the people - with other gentle people).
North Circular, Luke McManus, 2022 (image from the internet)
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More cinema that I am not sure what to do with.
When I first saw this film, I was required to rate it (something I truly dislike) and I gave it 2 out of 5, because I felt it was impossibly cruel: it humiliates one of its protagonists in front of the viewers at the will of another, which I so disliked. I have on second viewing not really changed my mind, but I see it with a little more nuance. This quote in particular almost tries to redeem the (really sad) title character, as if it wants to say: it wasn't entirely his fault either, he too was a victim. It is a fair point - underlined also by the choice of actor, as Adnan Omerović is the face of tenderness beaten and bruised by life, all soft hair and soft eyes and soft voice. But still, was all this necessary for the audience to see?
Najsrekjniot chovek na svetot, Teona Strugar Mitevska, 2022
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This happened today. And I liked it.
Barbie, Greta Gerwig, 2023
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Can we hurt others out of love for them - and if we can, (how) can we make things right?
Death of a Shadow, Tom Van Avemaet, 2012
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When the "East" makes a film that the "West" wants to see about it: all style, no substance.
Zimna wojna, Paweł Pawlikowski, 2018
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