Vera Drew and Mati Diop feel like the announcement of two future Titans, impossible todeny the brilliance on display, the unwillingness to shortcut the audience, complex meditations on existence and identity. Gonna be thinking about both for quite some
Currently writing about The People's Joker, but suffice it to say I was astounded by the layers of commentary tucked inside some of the most clever ( and this feels like an understatement) applications of the Batman lore I've seen on screen...
Dahomey - The intersections of the material and the immaterial, representation and presentation, the physical and the metaphysical meet in the long overdue journey across the ocean back home...
Home now both foreign, and familiar, the reunion met with suspicion and sentiment, the real power both imagined and to what extent is possible- factual, comes into question as the ancestors reckon with their own feelings through a voiceover more akin to possession..
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