Rafaela Bassili
@sallyjaygorce
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Ironically, in attempting to argue for Jane Birkin as a secret visionary, a new biography neglects what about her life was most interesting, writes @sallyjaygorce: https://t.co/wOYNvulFt4
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For @TheAtlantic, I reviewed the new Jane Birkin biography. She was an extraordinary woman who lived a varied, intense, messy life; the book can't always make sense of it.
theatlantic.com
Stylish face? Secret visionary? A new book argues for a different approach to the late actor.
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In arguing for Jane Birkin as a secret visionary, a new biography ironically neglects the most interesting thing about her life, @sallyjaygorce writes:
theatlantic.com
Stylish face? Secret visionary? A new book argues for a different approach to the late actor.
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"It was damned if you do, damned if you don’t; or, as we’d say in Brazil, If you run, the beast will catch you; if you stay, the beast will eat you." Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) writes on the absurdity and horror peculiar to Brazil captured in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s
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Que país é esse?
Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) writes on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s THE SECRET AGENT, a film that "anthropophagizes the American paranoid thrillers of the 1970s to make something funny, sad, grotesque, beautiful, and truly Brazilian."
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The Secret Agent opens today! When I watched it at @TheNYFF I thought it was suco de Brasil: KMF squeezed the juice out of the country and made a paranoid thriller of the essence. On @mubinotebook, my tour thru Brazilian history, culture, film, etc:
mubi.com
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s paranoid thriller captures the absurdity and horror peculiar to Brazil.
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"Working in Germany in the 1980s and early ’90s, during the golden age of romantic comedies in Hollywood, [Pia] Frankenberg saw that the absurdity of the genre rested in the devil’s bargain it offered women: your freedom for security. [...] The pressure women feel to weigh that
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"Either you sacrifice security for love, or you sacrifice love for security." With a retrospective now underway at @ICALondon, Rafaela Bassili (@sallyjaygorce) revisits the 1980s and ’90s anti-rom-coms of underseen German auteur Pia Frankenberg. https://t.co/ICHK3URrA5
mubi.com
On the anti-romantic comedies of an underseen German auteur.
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For @mubinotebook, I wrote about Pia Frankenberg, an underseen German auteur whose movies I’m so glad to now know. Never Sleep Again is a gem––3 untethered women walk around recently reunified Berlin for 2 aimless days, wondering how to change their lives.
mubi.com
On the anti-romantic comedies of an underseen German auteur.
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❤️🔥 @sallyjaygorce has written about Pia Frankenberg’s ‘idiosyncratic, irresistible characters’ with such beautiful understanding and insight @MUBINotebook
https://t.co/L5L50dQTsN
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It happened to me: I'm starting a newsletter. It's called Tunnel Vision, and it's a monthly blog about what I've been obsessing over. My first post is about bananas, a fruit I eat every day despite hating it for the last 20 years.
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Too Much, the new Lena Dunham series for Netflix, is out today. I loved it. In my recaps for @vulture, I mused on romance, from Jane Austen to Linklater & a lot else:
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If Nicole Kidman is in it, I'm watching it, I'm writing about it, I'm locking in, botched Russian accent notwithstanding
The first season of ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ ended by redeeming Masha’s self-serving motivations, and now, as the second season opens, the main question is whether, and how, those motivations have changed.
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In non-papal news, I reviewed the latest Nic Cage movie for @DefectorMedia, with thoughts on surfing:
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You've heard of Franzen Fever... now get ready for Krakauer Mania
I'm in a Franzen state of mind and there's nothing I can do about it
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