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“Even if you do not believe in the soul, the film makes it impossible to deny the soul of a country, that which births us, grooms us, and to which we add as we live and die inside it.”
“In ‘António and Catarina,’ the potential of youth contrasts the accumulated regrets of age.”
“New York might have the physical structure where one can project themselves onto a city, but Los Angeles’ mutability allows people to graft their life into its cultural fabric.”
“Even death can become tedious when one deals with it every day.”
“‘Festival’ challenges our preconceptions about the past – in this case, that of folk music and of music documentaries themselves.”
“‘Kho ki pa lü’ is about a lot of things, but it’s mostly about music. It is about Li, the songs that people sing when they cultivate rice in small müles.”
“Out of a fractured, tentative world, Kazik Radwanski created a strong and whole short film.”
“The past informs the present.”
“Have they never heard of negative space?”
“There’s an odd fraternity in their grease rubdowns and muscle worship.”
“It’s an unconventional perspective, making ‘Libera Nos’ a riveting new lens on a familiar topic.”