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Which was a quiet, understated film, about a group of students "held over" at their boarding school. A charming, melancholy, Character-driven film.
Good. Not, as reviewed, "Great", but better than a few others I've seen.
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This I've noticed as of late - the Film School of US VS THEM, films and series populated with non-sympathetic characters, like "reality" TV we're provided insights into despicable people, or people that we can recognize as others - but with whom there can be no sympathy. It's voyeuristic, divisive, think "Triangle of Sadness" or "Infinity Pool", there's nothing approaching a protagonist, no one to root for, the abstractions of class, plot, are not enough.
Anyways, just something I'd noted in the last few movies I've watched. Film - and narrative - is better served when you've somebody to root for.
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I'd forgotten why I downloaded this, Coen Brothers was probably reason enough, but then, at the beginning, the dibbuk again, so clearly I was on some mission prompted by Wiki Word Golf.
This was unusual for them, they're typical style but confined to a Jewish Professor who's life is falling apart in every conceivable way.
Well done, but always, interesting characters, scenarios, but - really, as if I weren't thoughtful enough over the holidays I didn't need this.
Anyways, what's next? There are movies to be seen for sure. Only which ones. Although, given the last few I've watched I'm thinking I should go back to books for a bit...
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Don't know what prompted me to watch this, but there go 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. Bloody hell.