“As a narrative revolving around members of a loathed social underclass, ‘√964 Pinocchio’ [grapples] with conceptual otherness through the fundamental human fear that that which belongs in the body will find its way out.”
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BHFF REVIEW: ‘The Sadness’ (2021) Is Tear-Jerkingly Depraved
“In ‘The Sadness’ the fear is not—as Hitchcock might have asserted—what is unseen, but what can be endured.”
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BHFF Review: As ‘Lux Æterna’ (2019) Proves, Bonfires Are So Sexy
“‘Lux Æterna’ associates the cinematic regard with the spectacle of a witch burning, gobbling up misogynistic entertainment at the expense of another’s pain.”
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BHFF Review: In ‘Good Madam’ (2021), Fear Lives In the Fingertips
“Taking up the mantle of other bright stars of the creepy-old-lady-upstairs subsection of the genre, ‘Good Madam’ offers an interesting take on horror that passes, first and foremost, through the hands.”
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REVIEW: ‘Luzzu’ (2021) is Tragic, but Doesn’t Understand Why
“With its sort-of-happy ending, ‘Luzzu’ rounds out the soul-crushing personal conflict of the late-capitalist age with a promise of alternate joys.”
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Perfect Humiliation: ‘All About Lily Chou-Chou’ (2001), Adolescence, and the Dawn of the Internet Loner
‘All About Lily Chou-Chou’ (2001) explores the relationship between identity, humiliation, and fandom for the kids of Japan in the early days of the Internet.
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