Cannes 2023 #9, with Justin Chang, Dennis Lim, and Rachel Rosen
The Film Comment Podcast
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In Water: A Novel About Growing Old
I found it very funny. In water was actually quite moving, and the last few films have had, you know, a lot of melancholy. And I thought this was very ry and funny and... But it has melancholy at the end, too. I mean... It's about growing old. The film is about very much about growing old there. And intergenerational relationships are foregrounded again. We're supposed to draw connections between one character and another. This isn't quite that but because of these little things like the intertitles, the sly resonances between the stories, it feels very structurally complex yet simple.
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