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"This story becomes more and more complex as well as interesting because Dawn (US) is at her dusk, (in some respects, how Hollywood tends to discredit its women [countries]). So, while she is depicted as a badtempered Little Lotta with an ungraceful, fumbling, uncultured interpretation, even of her own inability to access and/or process media--she hasn't been opportuned with education nor the social graces (contacts, money, looks) to enter media; she is boisterous, wild, lower/working class, unashamed of her body and its natural girth but unhesitant to break into performance (her lifelong love). So we come away with a complex picture of a woman who seemingly shouldn't depict (or be allowed to) her love of music, dance and enjoying life, but should rather be almost closet about it. A lot of the film of the genre coming out of Europe (i.e., Bye-bye Monkey) speak to the love/hate relationship with the United States. At the denouement, Dawn (the monkey) falls from the tree (the bough ... "
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"I saw this film when it was first released here in the US. The characters were well=crafted, and the performances were as well. If memory serves me correctly, the ending of the film is sort of anti-climatic, but I overall enjoyed although, for awhile, I started to wonder about Australian society. I get a lot of lottery mail from them. This film was not a gamble. But she was sort of an over-aged Australian Shirley Temple--she never saw past her youthful notion and, I guess, that's what made her kuku! "
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"The Criterion Collecton has opened up an online streaming shop, where twenty films can currently be watched online for $5. Your five dollars gives you the right to watch the film as many tines as you like for a week, and for a full year after that they’ll apply a $5 credit to the purchase of that DVD from their online store. Titles available now include Juliet of the Spirits, Cleo From 5 to 7, and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. Also — and this may be old news, but it’s new to me — Criterion is curating a “festival” of free films every month in partnership with The Auteurs. This month’s festival focuses on “Cruel Stories of Youth,” and includes such films as Sweetie, Ratcatcher, and Fat Girl. More here.
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"The Criterion Collecton has opened up an online streaming shop, where twenty films can currently be watched online for $5. Your five dollars gives you the right to watch the film as many tines as you like for a week, and for a full year after that they’ll apply a $5 credit to the purchase of that DVD from their online store. Titles available now include Juliet of the Spirits, Cleo From 5 to 7, and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. Also — and this may be old news, but it’s new to me — Criterion is curating a “festival” of free films every month in partnership with The Auteurs. This month’s festival focuses on “Cruel Stories of Youth,” and includes such films as Sweetie, Ratcatcher, and Fat Girl. More here.
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The Rage in Placid Lake
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"Director Tony McNamara’s debut feature, The Rage in Placid Lake is a mixed bag. It instantly conjures comparisons to any number of American and Australian indie coming of age comedies, I (heart) Huckabees, Sweetie, Igby Goes Down and Rushmore, being the most obvious. Like those films, it shares a central character adrift in self crisis as he begins to navigate the adult world. Unlike those films, it creates a wholly believable series of personal tragedies and triumphs for its characters.Placid Lake (musician Ben Lee), as his name suggests, is seemingly nonplussed in almost every situation he encounters. Saddled with new age parents more interested in their own personal discovery than helping to acclimate their son to mainstream society, he is forced create ever more elaborate ways to assert his independence and identity. Like all anti-heroes, he is beset upon by the pressure to conform. This pressure is manifested as three bullies that make it their life’s goal to humil ... "
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Sweetie Gave me a Toothache
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"Now I love perverse, tortured characters as much as the next guy, but Sweetie's family is so overdone that I nearly stopped watching. What Campion achieved with The Piano, was at least slicker and more polished if equally disturbing. It feels like her mission is more to titllate than to fascinate or to expose irony.And where is hope in this movie? For just a few moments, you think that protaganist Kay, flat affect and all, will actually loosen up and turn vaguely normal, but, alas, it's just a tease. Sweetie is just too weird to countenance...yet colorful in a grotesque, unbelievable way. And as for Mom and Dad... If people like this actually exist and reproduce, the world is a more dangerous place than I'd ever considered. "
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