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[See discussion under “My diary” entry for June 29, 2011]
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[See discussion under “My diary” entry for June 29, 2011]
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In the Realm of the Senses is a Japanese film made twenty years ago by Nagisa Oshima. At the time it was considered shocking even by the relaxed standards of the day and it was seized by U.S. Customs Agents. What innocent times they seem! Nowadays we aren’t so much more depraved than people were…
A strange movie from the Antipodes that tries to make a real-life act of mass murder into an object of beauty
A remarkable evocation by the director of Central Station of life in the outback of Brazil 90 years ago is spoiled by a facile ending.
There’s a lot going on in this mesmerizing Korean movie, yet all appears as still as the mountain lake on which it is set.
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