Dear White People Season 3
Gone is the urgency, the passion and the rage. Instead, we delve further into the personal lives of the characters.
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Tag Archives: Farce
Anomalisa
Anomalisa was created with possibly the best stop motion animation I’ve ever seen.
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Gone Girl
We feel for this man and the predicament he’s in, but we can’t shake the nagging suspicion that he’s lying to us.
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Snowpiercer
Just when you think that Snowpiercer has settled into a Hollywood action movie rhythm, up pops some slapstick humour.
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Rubber
The premise alone is enough to explain why sessions at this year’s MIFF quickly sold out (and a further session was added): Rubber concerns a homicidal, telekinetic car tyre. That’s right: an ordinary, abandoned car tyre that can make people’s heads explode just by thinking it.
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Dogtooth
It doesn’t seem to be purely farcical and if the film has an agenda then it’s hidden deep within the borderline psychotic behaviour on display. It doesn’t feel wrong for good reason, as with much of Todd Solondz’s work, yet isn’t comical enough to be classed as an absurd comedy.
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Louise-Michel
It is in the third act that the film loses much of its good will, becoming a far darker experience full of absent-minded brutality. One scene in particular – more hinted at via audio of events occurring off-screen – borders on offensive, and the fine balance that must be maintained for characters of this type is lost.
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