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The films of Koji Fukada depict the unravelling of social ties. In 2016, his film Harmonium presented a scenario in which a man named Toshio is visited by an old friend named Yasaka who just got out of prison. Out of guilt, Toshio allows Yasaka to stay with him and his wife and child, but we eventually learn that Toshio participated in the murder that landed Yasaka in prison, for which Yasaka took all of the blame. This sounds like a great setup for a pressure cooker suspense tale, but Fukada s restrained, formal style gives this story a clarity and sobriety that situates it outside of the thriller genre. In the end, rather than getting some kind of standoff or confrontation, we get a bleak and confounding examination of revenge as self-destruction, retributive justice as a form of hollow and self-involved satisfaction that completely avoids any type of story beat you might expect. Fukada achieves the same thing with his latest film, ....
Ella Kemp , December 16th, 2020 10:41 I do not know how many moments feature on this list. I know roughly the number of films, but I do not know which one is objectively the best. We could have tried to order them, to celebrate one film a little more than the others, to crown a winner of the race. But I didn t really want to do that this year. I am not going to explain how ludicrous this year was, or try to make sense of it. All I can do is welcome you to what I hope is one of the final lists you ll read this year, in which esteemed Quietus contributors write a tribute to their favourite moments in movies they have seen this year. I don t know if they consider the film they ve chosen to be their favourite of the whole year. I was interested in the details, the frame, the experience, the design, the line reading or whatever tiny thing they found that brought them a flicker of joy, of hope in 2020. ....
Still Life, Giraffe is a fiction sketched around the margins of an infrastructure project, capturing impressions of life and landscape in a place across which the state will soon sweep like a hand across a countertop. Instead of Still Life’s Three Gorges Dam, which juxtaposed the epic scope of the CCP’s ambition against the worker ants carrying the project out or being washed away in its wake, Giraffe’s Danish director Anna Sofie Hartmann tells a prototypical EU story of technocratic consensus and its faint, localized counterweight of regret over dying tradition. To get to Copenhagen (and on to Sweden, and so on) from the European mainland, a lot of people take ferry that leaves from Puttgarden in Germany and arrives in Rødby, on the island of Lolland. This route will soon be replaced by the Fehrman Belt Fixed Link, an 11-mile road and rail tunnel the longest in the world which will facilitate the easy rapid transit of people and goods between Northern an ....