Ancestors

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Written by Ben on 2024-11-23 at 16:44

[#]LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

★★★☆☆ | Isabella Eklöf, Holiday

The sexy blond and the gangster. Disturbingly ruthless, disturbingly meaningless. And rightly so.

★★★☆☆ | Magnus von Horn, Sweat (2020)

Three days of a fitness influencer. It's a job, baby.

★★★★☆ | Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin (2024)

How flashy cinematography makes you fall in love with the bad guys, example No 317.

★★★★☆ | Hirokazu Koreeda, Monster (2023)

The monster is other people. So what if you switch perspective?

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Descendants

Written by Ben on 2024-11-23 at 16:44

★★★☆☆ | Isabella Eklöf, Holiday

Sascha, a pretty young blonde gets involved with a gangster. It's a Faustian deal she is not prepared for. But she learns fast...

Eklöf's Holiday is a fascinating film, ruthless, violent. It's strength lies in its missing elegance, or rather, in showcasing the missing elegance of its characters. I like to understand Holiday as a milieu study, a study of brazen proles and worse. Or rather, a film about what it means to be a women around brazen proles.

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Written by Ben on 2024-11-23 at 16:44

Sascha finds herself in a chaotic game of money, violence, sex, and power. She doesn't seem prepared for it, maybe not even aware, and yet maybe it is her naïveté that allows her too to play the game.

Eklöf's Holiday is shrill. And yet there is some deeper insight to it. Sascha's is a world mostly untouched by white-collar ideas from feminism and empowerment, and yet Sascha too tries to find her own role in it.

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Written by Ben on 2024-11-23 at 16:44

★★★☆☆ | Magnus von Horn, Sweat (2020)

Sylwia is a very online fitfluencer. Sweat tells the story of three days in her life. Workouts, sweating, unboxing, and lots of Instagram.

On its surface, Sweat shows "the truth" behind the lives we follow online. Or rather, it shows that for some people, social media is just a job.

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Written by Ben on 2024-11-23 at 16:44

★★★★☆ | Lauren LeFranc, The Penguin (2024)

A dark and cynical series in a very cinematic Gotham City. It is entertaining, in a quite disturbing way. How easy it is to take sides with the bastards...

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★★★★☆ | Hirokazu Koreeda, Monster (2023)

Who is the monster? That depends on the perspective. A tender coming-of-age film in beautiful Japan.

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