Author: George Knighton
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Raw. Dir. Julia Ducournau. Focus World. 2017.
When Julia Ducournauβs debut feature film Raw (2017) was shown at Torontoβs Film Festival, paramedics were called to the scene after cinema-goers fainted during the screening. Raw tells the story of highly gifted 16-year-old vegetarian, Justine (Garance Marillier) and her journey into a merciless and dangerously seductive world during her first week of veterinary school. During a gruesome hazing ritual,…
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The Lighthouse. Dir. Robert Eggers. A24. 2019.
“π©πππ πβπππππ πππ πππππ ππ. π°π βπππ πππ πππππ ππ πππππππ ππππ πππ πππππ πππππ.” The Lighthouse is a film about madness and evil. The film uses the arrival and death of a seagull, at the hands of Thomas, to explore the threshold between sanity and madness, and our capacity for evil. Thomasβ sanity is questioned…