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Comfort the Disturbed, Disturb the Comforted (2006)
witty dialogue, believable characters and cerebral metaphor
A friend of mine suggested I watch this as I like dogme films. This isn't a dogme film, but it is bleak, dark, cold and gritty. It's almost cinema verite, with no discernible boundary between reality and story-telling. If you can ignore the Blair witch-like camera-work, then you can get immersed in a film that really is special. Its so refreshing to watch a film that doesn't pander to genres and bums on seats, but tells a story it wants to tell, in the way it wants to tell it. There's no special effects, hardly any action sequences, no love interest
just witty dialogue, believable characters and cerebral metaphor. I loved it and that's why I gave it 10.
Now You Don't Know What to Think (2002)
the future is this
I happened across this by accident on the website of a feature film by the same guy. I loved the title, saw it was only 90 seconds long and thought i couldn't lose. best 90 seconds i ever spent (with a few non filmic exceptions) and although it's only 90 seconds long it's captivating in its beautiful energy and camera-work and grade, whilst being so art-house and frenetic and aggressive in the edit. Oh and the dialogue is top class nasty- reminiscent of Ben Kingsley as don, with liberal use of words beginning with c and f. but the electricity in this buzzes out, really stunning you into the psyche of these guys. and it's surreal - in the copy after it, it says the bald guy was the director's plasterer! you'd never know he hadn't acted before. Check it out - it's something you need to see.