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enigmatic movie about capitalism and nature (film: Aku wa sonzai shinai / Evil Does Not Exist – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2023)

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is a film director who does not make life easy for the viewers of his films. After seeing his previous film, ‘Drive My Car’ (2021), which enjoyed international success, including an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film … Continue reading

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love, pain and Chekhov (film: Drive My Car – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2021)

‘Drive my Car’ by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a complex and elegiac film about love and mourning, about art as a means of relieving personal trauma, about responsibility and about the persistence of pain. Well-written and fine acted, it … Continue reading

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