Directed by Christopher Nolan, 2010
Christopher Nolan’s films tend to be ruminations on loss and regret — tender morsels of bleeding humanity wrapped in an increasingly glossy, protective coating of hard-edged technical sophistication. The films are things of beauty, precisely constructed and expertly executed. But you wouldn’t want to live there.
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Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009
Like last year's excellent Belgian film
Home, with which it shares a certain dark comedy (but not the earlier film's reluctant optimism), it features a wife and children who exist largely apart from the larger world into which the male breadwinner ventures on a daily basis. But where that separation in
Home was generally a question of geography, in
Dogtooth it's a matter of patriarchy.
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Directed by Michael Haneke, 2009
BLU-RAY
The White Ribbon is executed at an incredibly high level of craft and with an off-putting degree of self-confidence. While it is, at times, a movie of preternatural beauty, Haneke is confident that he's shining a light into the dark corners of recent human history, and he comes on like a preacher reading from the Book of Revelation.
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