black comedy
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FALLEN LEAVES (Dir. Aki Kaurismäki, 2023, Finland) – Chaplinesque
* * * * Kaurismäki’s latest dead pan socially conscious love story, and a return to the proletariat, is one of his most topical but perhaps his best work to date. Almost impossible for anyone to aspire to the innocence of Chaplin in such times of gut-wrenching cynicism but Fallen Leaves does just that, crafting Continue reading
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BERNIE (Dir. Richard Linklater, 2011, US) – Mr. Nice Guy [Spoilers Ahead]
Jack Black as Bernie Tiede. Its amazing what a moustache can do for an actor. Comic actor Jack Black has such a moustache in the latest film from director Richard Linklater. The moustache in question makes mortician Bernie Tiede appear deceptively ordinary; it also transforms Jack Black the comedian into a serious actor. Nonetheless, the Continue reading
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