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UN PROPHÈTE [JACQUES AUDIARD 2009]

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'By filmmaker Jacques Audiard’s own estimation, what happens is the “anti-Scarface,” a gangster epic of brutal, tragic and emphatically unromantic self-actualization. It’s also a parable of modern France, and maybe the first to touch this particular bundle of nerves with this much force since Albert Camus. Audiard’s arty but forthright storytelling has just the right ratio of rigor and elasticity to counterpoint the pulpy enormity of his protagonist’s arc; it’s all so determinedly, engrossingly well-played—and just as well-cast, with nonpro newcomer Tahar Rahim as the self-made thug and Niels Arestrup as the mob boss presiding over his sprawling odyssey of unsentimental education. It may be grim, but ultimately it’s a story of survival, both topical and timeless.'

[Jonathan Kiefer]

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FALLEN ANGELS [1995 Wong Kar-Wai] DP Christopher Doyle

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Rokugatsu No Hebi [A SNAKE OF JUNE, 2002 Tsukamoto Shin'ya]

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[...] Do you think there is a relation between eroticism and violence?

They're closely related, both originating from our animal instinct. They are as basic as the need to eat. I think they are fundamental elements for cinema too, but I think a lot of films forget that instinctive aspect or whitewash it. That's why I want it to play a strong part in my own films. [...]

Shinya Tsukamoto - full interview

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2046 [Wong Kar-Wai, 2004] DP: Christopher Doyle

[Love is all a matter of timing.]

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Martyrs [Pascal Laugier 2008]

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NOVEMBER

[Rainer Sarnet, 2017]

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HORS SATAN

[2011, BRUNO DUMONT]

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[...]

It could be the antihero who is supposed to be "outside Satan" in Bruno Dumont's latest film, or it could be the remote, islanded world he inhabits. He and they are quite close to Satan, at all events; it is perhaps truer to say he is outside both God and Satan. Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film Humanity – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling.

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Dewaele's loner is a kind of anchorite, and some locals even believe he has miraculous healing powers. Bizarre and shocking acts of violence follow, rendered the more enigmatic and bizarre by Dewaele's unreadability – a face weatherbeaten into blankness, as expressionless as a tattoo – and the way Dumont allows him to exist outside any normal cause-and-effect world of retribution.

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Peter Bradshaw, Outside Satan review

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Bakjwi [THIRST] PARK CHAN-WOOK 2009

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