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GUNDA (Victor Kossakovsky (2020)
From Norway, with additional footage from Spain and Britain. this is a wordless portrait in gorgeous black and white of a large sow who has just given birth to a brood of piglets; plus some fascinatingly tentative chickens; and some curious cattle. But mainly the sow and the piglets. I don't understand barnyard animals. But this becomes a striking festival art film about animals with a message Joaquin Phoenix, the world's most famous vegan, could get behind, since he's the executive producer. . After five films, this is my favorite so far.
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THE CALMING 平静 (Song Fang 2020)
A Chinese woman documentary filmmaker (Qi Xi) has broken up with her boyfriend. This film follows her as she quietly copes, and perhaps learns to appreciate being alone, while visiting Japan, admiring the snow in Niigata, returning home, spending time with friends, and takes comfort in a beautiful aria from Handel. A poetic, meditational sophomore film by the director whose first one, Memories Look at Me, was reviewed on Filmleaf as part of the 2012 NYFF.
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TIME (Garrett Bradley 2020)
A woman waits eighteen years for her husband to get out of prison. Striking amalgam of home footage and doc. This becomes a cry against institutional racism and mass incarceration couched in movingly intimate terms.
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FAUNA (Nicolás Pereda 2020)
From the Currents series (not Main Slate), an avant-garde Mexican filmmaker. This 70-minuter feature plays with narrative, absurdity, acting, disguise, Narcos, and family interactions in a poor little mining town. Unique.
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NIGHT OF THE KINGS/LA NUIT DES ROIS (Philippe Lacôte 2020)
A Prophet meets Sheherezade by way of City of God. An exuberant French language amalgam of elements focused on a young storyteller talking to save his life in the most crowded prison in Ivory Coast while the prison leader is losing his grip and both may not be around when the night of the red moon is over. Already many good English language reviews: Metascore 82%. Africa!
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CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman 2020)
The city is Boston, one of the country's biggest and oldest. "City Hall" includes all the city government's wide reach, and it encompasses the far-ranging sympathies of its liberal Irish-American Mayor, Marty Walsh, son of immigrants, in his second term, and an impressive illustration of everything the man in Washington is not. This is partly a love letter to Marty Walsh. It shows what it's like to be called upon to speak at every kind of meeting and never get bored, never fail to rise to the occasion. An impressive man. Four and a half hours.
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MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard 2020)
How the FBI hounded MLK (1963-1968) and let him die.
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