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The Sweet East: Satire?

The Sweet East, het debuut van Sean Price Williams, volgt Lillian (Talia Ryder), een middelbare scholier die tijdens een schoolreis naar Washington, D.C. haar groep achterlaat om de wereld buiten haar vertrouwde bubbel te verkennen. Dit verlangen naar ontdekking vormt het centrale thema van de film. Lillian symboliseert de Amerikaanse adolescent die zich tussen politieke […]

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The Settlers: all the violence that makes a nation

The Settlers (Los colonos) by Felipe Galvez Haberle – in which some of the racist and national violence of a fledgling state – Chile – is brought to light: the twentieth century has just dawned, and in South America topographical measures are being taken to map out a territory according to the directives of the […]

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Challengers

Regisseur: Luca Guadagnino (call me by your name, bones and all) Geschreven door: Justin Kuritzkes Challengers, de nieuwe film van Luca Guadagnino, volgt dertien jaar lang Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), een gedreven tennistalent dat niets liever doet dan winnen, Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), een opkomend tennistalent en Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor), een charismatisch natuurtalent dat altijd […]

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Dune: Part Two

Picture by Warner Bros Entertainment Inc Dune: Part Two immerses us in the vast, sandy expanse of Arrakis—a world that pushes all forms of life to their limits with its arid climate, where the battle for supreme power persists. Director Denis Villeneuve builds upon the foundation established in the first installment, which introduced us to […]

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Robot Dreams

You walk into the cinema and sit amongst children, feeling somewhat out of place. 102 minutes later, you leave the cinema feeling shaken and wonder if the kids next to you were capable of comprehending the profound emotions that were so subtly expressed, without the utterance of even a single word. Robotic Dreams is more […]

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Monster

Last summer, I had the privilege of watching Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film Monster (2023) — now released in the Netherlands — at Hong Kong Broadway Cinematheque, the hub of arthouse cinema scene in Hong Kong. Although what originally drove me there was not the film itself but my survival instinct to flee away from the […]

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Priscilla

After watching a Sofia Coppola film I always feel some kind of emptiness inside me. This is also the case with this film. For those who are not familiar with Sofia Coppola, her work is characterized by the themes: Loneliness and isolation, youth and innocence and outsiders. The film opens in Germany at a military […]

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LA RIOT TIP: Eat Me. Feed Me. Cheat Me.

A solo exhibition by Janis Rafa. Rafa is known for her work that challenges our view on animals in a broad sense. Currently, the EYE film museum is exhibiting her work, including many new pieces. A part of her work deals with pets and our perspective on owning them. Whereas the word owning is already food for thought (in […]

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