dardan
Bio: student of Leigh Brasington in the lineage of Ayya Khema -
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Yozhik v tumane (1975) - Rated 10 Sep 2015
"Curiosity and the incommunicable experience."
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Late Spring (1949) - Rated 21 Nov 2016
"Fear of becoming. The restless search to not perpetuate the boat of conditioned existence, which is impermanent, not-self, sufffering. Epitomized by the last scene."
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Through the Olive Trees (1994) - Rated 12 Jul 2016
"The stories of a boy searching his friend, of Kiarostami searching a boy, of man and woman, within communities equally searching, together, for hope, for safe passage, at first glance, seem different. To those living them, they are; despair, hope, love, sorrow - they speak to us in voices intimate and immediate. In reality, we partake in the same structures delivering us life, sharing paths trodden by wanderers past, as reincarnate spirits, wading and weaving through narratives of collective wri"
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Day for Night (1973) - Rated 08 Aug 2021
"The director takes great joy in submitting to the screen - to the analysis - various pieces of evidence and symbols in a trial on his life, which is also his film; amidst the scenes that play out his life, he remains the observer, the person being asked without taking part. The joy of this position which is from without any kind of self in the images, without any 'true' participation, makes Truffaut the Ozu of the west."
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The Mirror (1975) - Rated 12 May 2020
"Unregainable loss, and at the same time immortality through artifice. Once a man named Narcissus looked into the waters of his unconscious, looking for reflections to be put in an answer complete. Through meditative introspection, in a dislocated way, as selfobjects (Kohut), a world lost - parents, wars, now archival footage, a traumatic 'Real', reappear. It weighs on the subject as time: a childhood, a forgetting, a life - as sculptings, as poetic images, they fly by, live on without trace."
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Persona (1966) - Rated 28 Jul 2015
"An actress has been on the stage for too long. She collapses on the stage. The nurse appears, looking at a part of herself that can do no more than to lie down and be still. The nurse wants to communicate, feels that she should be able to. It doesn't work. The actress only finally responds when nurse confessess beyond her own act: of sexual pleasure, of an abortion. Of, in short, the truth. The shame and guilt, put out in the open. The personality integrates and she can live her life again."
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Her (2013) - Rated 05 May 2015
"Movies like 'Before Sunrise' freak me out, not because they are bad, but because the naturalist aspect attributed to them is only attributed precisely because of a certain fakeness to them; crafted situations in which an imperfection is, as style, precisely the content of that moment. In 'Her' we see someone writing love notes for others also be the recipient of a mass-marketed crafted love, which creates a delusion-sustaining mesh that atomizes us."
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