re: Sight and Sound 2022 Greatest Films of All Time

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I’m going to watch it before passing judgement

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I wouldn't bother unless you are a film historian and writing a paper.

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Why is the film important? Probably the best known example of slow cinema, it was embraced by academics, critics and feminists when it was first released partly because of its radical politics.

With “static, head-on compositions and unblinking blocks of real time,” the writer Dennis Lim once explained, the film’s “observational strategies, long takes and scrupulous framing” can be seen in the work of everyone from Todd Haynes and Gus Van Sant to Michael Haneke and Jia Zhangke. - New York Times

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And that's the praise. She's a mundane housewife doing mundane things by herself...and an occasional prostitute at home. If that's radical or feminist...whatever, the film is almost unwatchable which anyone with a 16-MM camera in high school could make. This list is not a reflection on film, it's a reflection on the current state of society.