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Sam Mendes, Empire of Light, Enys Men, Tár & M3gan
Kermode & Mayo’s Take
Empire of Light
Empire of Light feels to me like five different films. On the one hand it is, as he was saying, a very personal film about his mother and her own personal struggles. On the second hand, it is, I know that it's not cinema parody, so, but there is the projection is presenting the movie. There is that whole side of it, the love of cinema, the Terrence Davis, looking up at the beam of light and seeing the thing projected. And then he does the thing about the static frames with darkness in between the five phenomenon, an illusion of motion, the illusion of life, that little beam of light, it's an escape. Well, that
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