On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 8:03:32 PM UTC-6, septimus wrote:
A third of the decade has passed (if you count year zero as
the beginning and nine as he end). It is intriguing to look
back at my notes and nominate a partial decade's best list.
1. _Saint Omer_, Alice Diop
2. _Compartment Number 6_, Juho Kuosmanen
3. _A Radiant Girl_, Sandrine Kiberlain
By the way, for some reason I always thought Juho Kuosmanen is a woman.
I stand corrected. If there is one serious auteurist omission, it might be Melanie Laurent's _The Mad Women's Ball_. Lou de Laage should be
represented somewhere in these lists anyway!
And I did rewatch _Summer Palace_ for the first time in years. It
was a shattering experience. Five high spirited, passionate friends
studying at Beijing have their lives spilt into two by the Tiananmen
massacre. This leads to exile, disillusionment, suicide. The film
opens with the irrepressible protagonist's voiceover, her diary entry,
and at the end even she has been silenced forever. The only thing
left is a haunting inscription on a gravestone. What has really died is
the idealism of a generation, and of an entire nation. One of the
greatest films of all time indeed.
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