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I am trying to find this movie in the USA

A very honest and appropriate take, thank you. I just saw it and was blown away like you (had already discovered "Nocturama"). It´s the non-explanatory narrative that makes the elliptical structure so believable, I think. Let me add a quote by Jean-Luc Godard he told us journalists during the presentation of "Nouvelle Vague" in Zürich, spring of 1990: "Il n´y a pas à comprendre, il y a à entendre." "Take over" and "swallow" or instead just "listen" and remain "tenderly" open to what you´re experiencing.

Great sentiments 👍✌️🕊️☮️

I wish I could find this at a cinema but will have to settle for streaming. Apart from your very fine review there are two other reasons I am keen to see this. It has a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis who have made some of the finest cinematic music of the last 20 years. Also I just discovered that the director made The Sapphires in 2012, a heartwarming film with a superb soundtrack also based on a true story. By the sound of it this film couldn’t be more different.

Thanks to your review I have bought a ticket to see this at the excellent cinema located within the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne. I particularly love film based on true stories and your review has really spurred my interest. I saw the Teacher’s Lounge at the New park Cinema in Chichester and rate it highly. I really enjoy hunting down your art house movies.

Thank you, I agree completely.

Really enjoyed this film. I'd love to have seen how he taught his pupils at his earlier schools, particularly as this was based on a true story.

A very good summary of Mark Cousins style of film-making: he seems to be hung up on his time interviewing directors and actors, teasing out their thoughts as they rewatched a scene from their films

hello! Do you know the name of the song that the trans girl sings that says something about the merciful way of God? thank you! beautiful movie

I can recommend Once Upon a Time in Anatolia another of Ceylan's films. Another long one!! Samet, the main character in About Dry Grasses was fascinating. My favourite scene was the dinner scene with Samet and Nuray, a local woman he has got to know, where she questions him about his philosophy of life. His own philosophy is negative and self-centred - look after number one - don't help anyone - whereas her philosophy is much more socially caring. This film dealt with important issues about how we live our lives and deserves everyone's attention.

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I think it is an excellent film, very good because it shows many very important points of view, which continue to affect many athletes.

Have you ever been on a walking tour of a city, or town, or palace and found yourself dwelling on one nugget of information for so long that you miss the next 5 minutes of the tour. This always happens to me and was exactly how I experienced this film. My eyes could never quite keep pace with the ghastly facts being presented through my ears. This is not meant as a criticism but indicates how I felt almost physically inside the film. I kept wanting to press some rewind button because the facts being presented, in such a matter of fact voice, were too awful to contemplate without a pause, yet there was no pause until that intermission (which was not intended for popcorn I understand). I would go see the four and one half hours again tomorrow because I know I would experience it in an entirely different cut. You probably know that there is a 34 hour version, to be played on a loop in an installation where just as you say, the viewer can experience a segment as long or short as may be their preference. But I am so grateful the director made this version for wider distribution. I can never quite lose myself in a gallery in the way I experience cinema.

Sounds fascinating. Thanks Cliff.

…And Joseph Quinn was a revelation to me. I loved his character and the actor himself reminds me of a young Robert Downey Jr or Brendan Fraser. My younger friends informed me he came to prominence in Stranger Things which I have never seen. I would pay good money to see him in something “serious”.

I heartily recommend this film for cat lovers. Seriously I enjoyed it, but probably because at no time did I take it seriously. To be fair, alien creatures have had no where left to go more frightening or repellant since the Alien franchise. Have you seen Godzilla Minus One? Now there is an art house creature feature.

Such a lovely heartfelt film and your beautiful review does it justice. All the characters lack family for a variety of reasons (rejection, abandonment, orphaned) and though none finds exactly what they look for, they do create a community of care for each other in a huge, seemingly impersonal city.

I couldn’t agree more. I too was fearing the plot was about to take a darker turn, as the groundwork had been if the bad things about the character Saul’s past may have been revealed to be true after all.

Fantastic review, I just finished the film in tears! I loved this. Glad someone else feels that way too

Great review but i am pretty sure that at the end, the audence is supposed to decide for themselves whether the husband is acting and only pretending so that his wife will stop when the ghost is removed from his body or whether it is happening for real. I personally think that he was acting as there is no other reason for his character's profession within the film to be an actor. You also may enjoy the ending more if you consider this as a very possible meaning to the ending.

I love this movie. Just watched. I also turn away from movies which show a lot of suffering.

Great review! Pretty much agreed with everyone you said! 😊

Sons of Anarchy is about as realistic as Battlestar Galactica. I am THRILLED The Bikeriders was grounded and based on real people and real situations instead of posturing, vulgarity and endless shootouts. Remember, this movie is based on the Chicago Outlaws and the characters are all based on real people and audio interviews from the 1960's. The Bikeriders is about a motorcycle CLUB that slowly gets infiltrated and eventually becomes a GANG.

finally someone says it lol

Great! This is one of my favourites. There’s a lovely interview with PTA after he’s just made that monumental, ensemble melodrama, Magnolia, and he’s asked what he’s making next. He says he’s going to do a 90 minute comedy with Adam Sandler. And he did. Sort of.

I agree the ending didn't really fit with the rest of the film. The film had been ambiguous and subtle and was intriguing and humorous at times. I really enjoyed it. The ending then gave us a reason why the husband had been sleepwalking. Maybe it was the way it was depicted but it felt forced and not the right ending for the film I had been watching. It all felt too overt. But worth watching nonetheless.

Such a classic film. A seedy, disturbing more realistic Hitchcock. Would be interesting to see a contemporary adaptation. Probably one of those classic films that is untouchable. Great and very passionate review 😊

Dude, you lost me at, “these aren’t necessarily bad people. They’re people who are ignorant of what they are doing.” The filmmaker clearly demonstrates that MacLennan and Bill, both from the global north, know what they’re doing. This is 1901, well into neocolonialism. Movements to abolish policies that dehumanized non-European groups weren’t leading political actions of nations, but were nonetheless already well established in the global north. Hell, the American civil war was already fought 46 years prior. As men from the U.S. and Scotland, they would have certainly been familiar with debates around what we call today dehumanization, and clearly were making a choice. Menendez’s wife, also doesn’t strike me as all that ignorant. She uses the church and western cultural conformity to justify forced assimilation of indigenous youth, but it’s clearly in service of defending her own privilege. I don’t believe her indignation of the government’s agent can be used to describe her as ignorant of her own crimes. That’s a false dichotomy. The priest probably believes it. But her, she’s comes across as more calculating, both indignant, and aware. It’s hard to imagine her granting any of the recipients of her charity the same social status she occupies. That’s a choice. The government agent is perhaps the only one who is unaware of his own glaring hypocrisy. He, at first, appears to want to help the indigenous population, but he also does it through forced assimilation and an ugly position of power. He believes his own BS. Segundo is trapped between all these people, he knows what he’s done and he appears haunted by it. Menendez… as you say seems mostly business driven, which makes him the most “inhuman” in his motivations. He chooses not to care, out of greed and power. Sorry… the filmmaker very much appears to show that most of these characters are actively making ethically destructive, inhumane choices. They own it.

Yea,but in my honest opinion, you have to be a really big fun of Lea Seydoux. This is the actors movie. And the director just enjoy of Lea: in different maquillage, different light,different costumes... This movie is a real triumph of Lea Seydoux!

Loved hearing your thoughts on this!

It's a delicious movie!

The writer guy's original novel sounded much more interesting, than the one we get at the end.

Awesome review! Keep up the great work!

Great review as always :)

Can't wait to see it!

Loved the film, and it's still at the back of my mind since I saw it. The subtle steps of "de-thawing" were so touching and relatable.

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I was in 2 minds about watching this. I'll skip it

Just finished it, wth happened in the end ?! I didn’t really understand

While I mostly disagree with your views on the Villeneuve Dune movies (I dislike them,too, but mostly for other reasons), there's a lot of insightful comments and just the fact that you dared going against the grain by giving a negative review on them, warrnats a thumbs-up for this video. Also, your comments on the Lynch adaptation ring true for me. Thank you for this video.

Just seen this for the first time on iplayer and think your review was spot on.

Really good review. Couldn’t agree more.

George and Lea looked as though they didn't really know what was going on. Still, they took the money and ran anyway. 😂

Your review has got me excited for it! And I also think it will help me to appreciate it more. Thanks

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Great review! I liked it as well :)

Second review I've watched on your channel (first was La chimera), I subscribed 'cause I like the films you review. I guess (and hope) everybody is different but I definitely don't care AT ALL if characters are likable in films or literature (you also said something similar to the character of King Josh O' Connor in the other review). I don't think this film is overcooked and I enjoyed it very much, like every Guadagnino film since his beginnings (and every interview I saw on him, I wish directors know 1% of history of cinema as he does). Of course this one is a "mainstream" film and I wish all mainstream movies were a little bit like this one. I particularly enjoyed every relationship on this triangle, specially the one involving the two guys, a relationship always missing on every single love triangle film. His Anatomy of a scene on the New York Times on CZcams is a must see. Actually, many things make this one a different one, treating men as women are usually treated (the male characters are always shirtless, the way the camera shot them) and Zendaya as men are usually treated (that unforgettable smile watching them making out). Anyway, I don't try to convince you, every artistic experience is different, so I guess better for me that I loved it, specially that hug at the end with Zendaya's face 😍 Cheeers from Spain, I hope was English was readable!

Nice Review. I subbed! Do you review a lot of sport movies?

Cassavetes is the best, the most authentic.

Tragedy and our reactions to it comes as a surprise to our lives and without satisfying explanation. How it happens is not as important as that it happens. Welcome to the beautiful mystery of nature and consciousness! Good movie.