Blanchett then slowly hangs up the phone and returns, defeated, to the kitchen. The camera frames her in a medium shot and in a single take that will last about one minute, she sits at the table, facing us, and begins to robotically peel one apple, then another, then another. And there she is, before our eyes. We are witnessing the renaissance of Jeanne Dielman!
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The great German director (Christian Petzold) reunites his gorgeous stars from the baffling Transit (Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski), this time for a story that flirts with the myth of the water nymph, Undine.
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Aida (magnificently played by Jasna Djuricic) is a translator for the UN in the town of Srebenica in Bosnia. In 1995, when the Serbians overtake Srebenica, Aida knows the horrific fate that awaits her husband and two sons if they are found…
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Dev Patel is Gawain, not quite yet a sir, the nephew of King Arthur (Sean Harris) and Queen Guinevere (Kate Dickie) and the son of Morgan Le Fay (Sarita Choudhury), who practices witchcraft. The bulk of the movie centers on Gawain’s journey across the wet, verdant English countryside (the film was actually filmed around Cahir castle in Ireland).
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This entails some very funny scenes involving the purchasing and using of a dildo (Jackie on Elliot), Jackie’s new sense of power and Elliot’s reexamination of his relationship with his father. It’s all lovely and zips by in a short running time of seventy-six minutes.
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