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Youth poster
Consider his depiction of old flesh longing for young, in which Caine and Keitel, reclining one night in a hot tub, watch in awe as a nude Miss Universe (Mădălina Diana Ghenea) settles in across from them; now compare this to the skin-crawling discomfiture of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love (2012), or Larry Clark stepping in front of the camera to slurp up a teenager’s toe jam in The Smell of Us (2014).
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Saint Maud poster
Rose Glass’ debut feature belongs to the same provocative tradition as The Devils and Paradise: Faith ; though it doesn’t entirely live up to some of its genre forebears, the drama/horror hybrid portends great things to come from both Glass and Morfydd Clark.
Michael Nordine • Substack • Jan 28, 2021
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Goodnight Mommy poster
Exhilaratingly hostile horror, “Goodnight Mommy” (Ich seh, Ich seh, or “I See, I See”) is a bold, emotionally raw directorial debut from Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, produced by Ulrich Seidl, who discomfitingly straddles nonfiction and fiction with his monocled eye in movies like “Dog Days” and his recent “Paradise” trilogy.
Ray Pride • New City Film • Sep 25, 2015
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