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Time of the Wolf (2003)

Time of the Wolf (2003)
Rating: ★★
Apr 2, 2015Social Collapse
Michael Haneke has risen to great acclaim in recent years; this is one of his earlier works – a slow Tarkovsky-esque work that seems set in a future that is collapsing at the edges. Haneke is a fascinating talent but this is a bit too vague and well free of anything actually happening for me
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Snow White (2009)

Snow White (2009)
Rating: ★★★★
Oct 8, 2010Fairy-Tale Ballet Adaptation
An amazing reinterpretation of the classical fairytale as modern ballet for adults. This does amazing things to reinvent the original and is visually extraordinary
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Rubber (2010)

Rubber (2010)
Rating: ★★★★
Oct 4, 2010Killer Car Tire/Meta-Fictional Monster Movie Parody
The best killer car tire film ever – a monster movie spoof wound in so many layers of meta-fiction that it is positively side-splitting. The smartest and funniest monster movie in ages
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Wrong (2012)

Wrong (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 16, 2014Gonzo Surrealism
Quentin Dupieux's follow-up to the hilariously culty Rubber, an absurdist film about a man setting out to find his missing dog. You keep expecting something as mind-bendingly hilarious as Rubber but this is more of a mild amusement in the David Lynch-ian deadpan surrealist vein
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Mekong Hotel (2012)

Mekong Hotel (2012)
Rating: ★★
Oct 8, 2012Thai Ghosts/Reincarnated Lovers
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a festival favourite and one genre director whose work is least categorised as such. As with any of Weerasethakul's films, this has some intensely haunted moments but is severely lacking in plot or any kind of dramatic inertia
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Arabian Nights (2015)

Arabian Nights (2015)
Rating: ★★
Aug 8, 2016Anthology of Portuguese Magical Realist Vignettes
This is not an adaptation of the Arabian Nights but the title has been appropriated for a collection of quasi-fantastical tales and even documentaries about the Portuguese Austerity Crisis over six hours in length
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Personal Shopper (2016)

Personal Shopper (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Oct 16, 2016Possible Ghost Story/Mystery Texter
Olivier Assayas's high-profile but wildly critically divided work feels as though it has several competing plots circling around Kristen Stewart – a ghost story, one about a mystery texter and briefly a murder mystery – which feel incomplete and unfinished and only maybe intersecting with one another
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