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Encompassing shorts and features, photography and documentary, Khalik Allahâs work in the last decade has displayed a notable consistency of subject matter and approach, along with a tendency towards expansion and experiment. Focusing on the homeless, addicts and others hanging out around the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, Allahâs shorts, including Urban Rashomon (2013), and his doc feature Field Niggas (2015) suggest street photography brought to vibrant cinematic life through an edgy but lyrical style.
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Never one for staying still, French director François Ozon rivals our own Michael Winterbottom for the sheer variety of projects on his CV and the speed with which he seems to bang them out. Not to get stuck in the rut making the erudite comedies and erotic thrillers that had shaped his 2010s up to this point, he turned his attentions to this very sober, mournful and elegant romantic drama set in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. Shot mainly in black and white and in German, itâs a loose remake of Ernst Lubitschâs 1932 film The Broken Lullaby, in which the widow of a German soldier is visited by a Frenchman claiming to have been an old friend of her husbandâs. The cleverly titled Frantz is about the process of healing between two nations that are no longer at war with each other â the lingering enmity, distrust and the possibility for renewed connection. Visually the film recalls Michael Hanekeâs T
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