What I like the most in “Cold War” and “Roma” are ways they bridge the intimate with big political backgrounds. Perhaps one of the reasons for the movies huge success is their acknowledgement that we can’t escape the politics, that our beings cannot be separated from the social deals that in a very direct way shape our destinies. Perhaps it’s a sign of times that this kind of sensitivity chimes so well with the audiences. It does so because a new wave of some profound social and political rearrangement is coming and we all feel it. A few super talented and sensitive people are acting as rods for those bulging premonitions and project our anxieties on a big screen.
Nothing new. Plenty of movies have done it before and yet this feels so very fresh. Perhaps it's the question of artistic balance and the swelling gravity of the external...
Nothing new. Plenty of movies have done it before and yet this feels so very fresh. Perhaps it's the question of artistic balance and the swelling gravity of the external...
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