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Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (2022)
MORE NIGHTMARE THAN DREAM Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a strange movie. Reminiscent of the style of films like Elippathayam (1982), it is deliberately slow to the point of ennui. There are cinematic devices strewn around in the narrative ostensibly to evoke a “how clever” from…
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) & The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The post compares two contrasting movies: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ a grand WWI epic, and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ an intimate tale of lost friendship in a small Irish village. Despite their differences, both films center on a man’s heartbreaking transformation due to…
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Navarasa (2021)
I finally got around to watching (trying to watch, to be more accurate in hindsight) the much-touted “Navarasa”. An anthology of short films that depict the ‘9 emotions’, it brings together some of the biggest names in the Tamil film industry. Watching it was a…
