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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour is a film of intersections – past and present, France and Japan, man and woman, conflicting sides of a war – and through his elusive formal comparisons Alain Resnais draws a sharp divide down the middle of its central romance, ruminating over the subjective memories left behind in the wake of such…
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The Magician (1958)
Ingmar Bergman captures an offbeat blend of his severe dramas and graceful comedies in The Magician, turning a critical eye towards his own craft of underhanded artistic manipulations by centring a travelling troupe of con artists, and lightly exposing the fraud that unites them with their harshest critics.
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Aar Paar (1954)
Guru Dutt is incredibly resourceful in the glorious Bollywood spectacle of Aar Paar, spinning a simple love triangle off into a breezy comedy, a sumptuous melodrama, and a thrilling crime plot, and landing one high-spirited ex-convict in the middle of it all as the master of his choices.
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The Quiet Girl (2022)
Although young Cáit comes from an abusive home in The Quiet Girl, Colm Bairéad’s tender reflection on emotional healing proves to be a film of gentle repose, establishing a symbiotic harmony between broken children and adults alike that graciously alleviates their parallel traumas.
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
As the chilly mist clears across Scott Cooper’s frozen landscapes in The Pale Blue Eye, an intriguing murder mystery of occult horror and dark family secrets emerges, conceiving what Gothic evils and melancholy regrets might have given birth to the morbid imagination of Edgar Allen Poe.
