Tag: Notebook
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15 Emotional Breakup Movies That Had Everyone Ugly Crying
One of the powers of good storytelling paired with solid filmmaking is invoking the ugly cry from viewers. The ugly cry is the uncontrollable stream of tears you, as the audience member, engage in as you feel all the characters’ emotions and stories playing out across the screen. We’ve ugly cried to movies with animals,…
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Cannes Film Festival 2021 Critic’s Notebook 5: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Information, context and mystery have been on my mind quite a bit since seeing the two new films that Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought to this year’s Cannes: his feature-length, Tilda Swinton-starring, Colombia-set Memoria, and the 13-minute “Night Colonies,” the segment that concludes The Year of the Everlasting Storm omnibus project, which collects seven short…
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Cannes Film Festival 2021 Critic’s Notebook 2: Benedetta, Hit the Road
Dutch director Paul Verhoeven’s “lesbian nun movie” Benedetta may have taken two extra years to land (Verhoeven’s hip surgery in 2019 prevented him from completing post-production in time for that year’s Cannes), but its prologue wastes no time informing the audience of its mischievous timbre (for the handful heading into it expecting anything close to…