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Contempt

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  • Title: Le Mépris
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With Christopher Nolan‘s big-budget of adaptation looming, we take a quite different look at a film exploring Homer‘s classic tale. Written and directed by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, 1963’s Contempt centers on playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), whose marriage falls apart after he agrees to help rework the script for American producer Jerry Prokosch (Jack Palance) and German director Fritz Lang‘s (playing an exaggerated version of himself) production of Homer’s The Odyssey.

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The Death of Robin Hood

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  • Title: The Death of Robin Hood
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Getting his old man Logan grumpiness on, Hugh Jackman stars as a grizzled Robin Hood weighed down by the past and pulled out of his self exile, notable only for the occasional assassin looking for revenge against the legendary outlaw, by an old friend (Bill Skarsgård) in need of aid. After things go poorly, a wounded Robin finds himself on the mend at the Priory of St. Clement to contemplate his past and future.

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Pressure

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  • Title: Pressure
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Delving into one of the less explored aspects of one of the most covered war moments in history, the script by Anthony Maras and David Haig, based on Haig’s stage play, explores how weather won perhaps the most crucial battle of World War II. Despite it’s slightly unusual subject matter, the structure of the film (involving one lone voice of reason struggling to be heard over the naysayers) is quite familiar.

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Lust, Caution

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  • Title: Lust, Caution
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One of my favorites from the extremely strong slate of films released in 2007, director Ang Lee‘s Lust, Caution earned praise winning Lee his second Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival but also backlash for the film’s explicit sex scenes causing it to be released in America under a NC-17 rating. Loosely inspired by an attempt to kill a Japanese collaborator during WWII, Tang Wei stars as the most naive member of a group of radicalized college students who plan to kill a collaborator (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) set in power by the Japanese occupation in China.

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Sirât

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  • Title: Sirât
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Sirât offers the tragedy of a father (Sergi López), accompanied by his son (Bruno Núñez Arjona), on an ill-fated search for his missing daughter. Their journey starts at a rave in the middle of the southern Moroccan desert where they decide to follow a group of ravers (Stefania Gadda, Richard ‘Bigui’ Bellamy, Jade Oukid, Tonin Janvier, and Joshua Liam Herderson) off the beaten path to another rave where they hope to finding the missing piece of their family.

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