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Review coming: ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo 2017)
I just saw (and enjoyed) it in the Contenders series at MoMA last night.
Remaining to cover of NYFF 2017 Main Slate:The last two are easy to access, the first three, not so much.Quote:
Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
Mrs. Hyde/Madame Hyde (Serge Bozon)
Mudbound(Dee Rees)
Wonderstruck(Todd Haynes) - Centerpiece
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ON THE BEACH ALONE AT NIGHT (Hong Sang-soo 2017)
Seen at the catch-up series at MoMA called The Contenders 23 Dec. 2017, one of three features the prolific director produced this year, two of which were in the NYFF Main Slate. It relates unusually closely to his life, being about a young actress whose affair with a married Korean director caused so much scandal at home she lost her manager and had to spend time abroad to cool off. She is played by Kim Min-hee, for whom Hong left his wife. She is captivating: one can understand. A series of the usual talking and drinking sessions among different combinations of people show Kim Min-hee in unusually intense and emotional form. The movie is worth watching just for her, but there are dreamlike, surreal elements too, and this is one of Hong's best, despite lacking the formal inventiveness of other redent efforts.
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino 2017)
Story in Dazed Digital, ‘Call Me By Your Name’ might turn into a series of films.Quote:
There is talk that Call Me by Your Name may be "a series" - it may just mean a followup, because there is quite a lot about what happens to Elio after the summer with Oliver when he was seventeen, though it's just reviewed over certain moments at future times when he is, alas, never as happy with anybody again (that is the point).
There's actually a longer interview where he goes into more detail in Vulture.
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BEFORE WE VANISH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2017)
A return to form from two off films he made recently, but meandering and lacking suspense. It's an alien invasion movie that turns into an affirmation of the power of love. This was in the New York Film Festival, but I'm reviewing it because it comes out in theaters in a few days, February 2, 2018. It debuted at Cannes. But Metacritc rating 57. Still there is mastery and fun to be had here, especially for Kurosawa fans.
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Lucrecia Martel's Zama opens today in New York (IFC Center in Lower Manhattan and Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center).