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2026-06-18 01:22 UTC

I, Daniel Blake (2016) It sometimes gets a bit too close to "deserving poor" rhetoric, but otherwise this is a very good portrayal of people falling to precarity as the bureaucracies supposed to be a safety net watch, unmoved. Nothing too harrowing, but a couple scenes are really going to stick with me, just because of their heartbreakingly simple honesty.

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@attoparsec@clacks.link 2026-07-12 06:33

I seem to have fallen behind on my Palme d'Or posts. With only 4 left to go, I need to keep on top of this! The Square (2017) It seems like a harmless satire at first, but there is deep and ugly cynicism under it. The most interesting thing is the mcguffin event at the very beginning, then it's just 2 hours of watching a rich asshole reacting to things without conviction. Shoplifters (2018) A really nuanced and deceptively positive exploration of found family, lovely and charming and profound. It's been a while since I've been so glad this project forced me to watch a film I might never have gotten around to otherwise. Titane (2021) Absolutely incoherent. Is it a psychological thriller, is it body horror, is it trying to say something about gender, is it a Ballardesque statement on technological alienation? If it had put more effort into any one of those (particularly the last one) it might have at least been interesting.

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