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Pentru mine tu esti Ceausescu (2021)
The eternal sunshine of a short collective memory
Indie docu with some apparently inadequate Romanian GenZ-ers who are handpicked to play Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu having no idea who he was or about his impact on the country. It's painfully obvious the documentarian is trying to draw a parallel between the inadequate, ignorant young Ceausescu and this group of 20yr-olds and specifically 1 religious subject in his early 30s... Both intriguing and predictable at the same time?
Except it's not! They start learning, understanding, discussing, debating, playing, enjoying the project they've been selected to participate in... They may have kicked it of at cobbler's son, primary school-level Ceausescu, but they're now finessing acting and bonding...
Now, as an '83 Millennial, born and bred in Bucharest, Romania, I am both grateful for projects like this, but also extremely worried Gen Z have no idea what Gen X went through...
Limbo (2023)
13.7K km away from Limbo/Coober Pedy and I get it... unfortunately...
I have watched and do follow Australian TV and cinema and the likes of "Black Snow" and "Limbo" only seem to have scratched the tip of the iceberg in terms of racism... "Limbo" feels even more personal though. You can see it in the austere setting and cinematography, sparse dialogue, superb delicate and minimalist method acting, symbolism throughout... seems black and white, but there truly are far more shades of grey to start snowballing a real conversion which, in all fairness, never, in a million years, have I thought Aussies needed to tackle... At the end of the day, this IS a "whodunnit", but at a much larger scale... TOTALLY RECOMMENDED!
Tár (2022)
Thank you Todd Field and Cate Blanchett!!!!!
I almost instantly knew this movie was specifically written for Cate Blanchett without even looking it up... But, then again, how hard can it be for CB to play ANYTHING? Question is how hard was to write, pitch it to CB and direct it? AS A FAKE BIOPIC??? There are so many layers to this movie I could write a book on it! From gender to religion to culture to power to control to loyalty to partnership to romance to parenting to authenticity, to sociopathic and narcissistic behaviour to ambition and infatuation, etc. All summed up in what we call HUMAN NATURE! And all spectacularly (dis)played by CB... and here's the twist! IN A MAN'S ROLE!!!! And now please clear the red carpet for the 3rd time winner of (at least!) the OSCAR! + the Golden Globe, SAG, Critics' Choice, BAFTA, AACTA... whatevz! I reckon this movie finally consecrated the shift in the gender-equality paradigm!