Flic

A broken self that dreams of something better in a meaningless existence. Repetitive shot experimentation. Bread and movies. Tone-shifts that changes this from fantastical, tense, soothing to disturbing. Combination of a subtly maximalist and full-on minimalist style.…

PlaguDocta

I recall the things on your mind. But maybe I can't recall all the times I slept when I was so much more younger. I could never count the times where I was in the backseat of the car where you would imagine your little characters walking around this moving world, too…

PlaguDocta

this is so specifically what i'm always searching for: genre filmmaking, but twisted through the use of techniques which remove us from the exciting rush of sensation and transport us instead to a contemplative space that is simultaneously demanding, rewarding, and…

comrade_yui

A lonely portrayal of the meaning of losing the foundation of the soul, and the consequent vibration of reality, memory and time.

zeindayq

Hostile Haze "𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭." 𝙇𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙬𝙖𝙮 + 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙚 = 𝙁𝙡𝙞𝙘 That's all you really need to know. Kobayashi's Flic is a surrealist headache with enough madness and…

blight

Lord, I wish I was capable of writing a proper review for this one, but I am unable to do it. Here's a great take from the always reliable JR, and here you can check Moon's amazing lyrical fireworks. Go read those. And yet... Is there a mightier task than casting out the…

Yavor Ivanov

Intently distant and deceptive, Flic is a murder mystery; turned inside out. Kobayashi presents an ever shifting, growing and retracting narrative playground taking place in the confines of a police procedural limbo. Flattening the plane, melding dreams, memories,…

Jack Kecskes

Wind Chimes Wanted to start this review with a shout-out to PlaguDocta, one of the best guys on here, I love his writing and his taste in Asian cinema. This is his all-time favorite film, and I wouldn't even know that it existed without him, so cheers. Really fascinating…

Noah Cassidy

In a small town where anyone knows everyone and factory chimneys have a haunting presence, brings a weary cop and his colleague to talk with the sole relative of a recently murdered woman. The leisurely pace of the story goes toe to toe with the silences in the town, with…

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