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Master Gardener 2022
I appreciated this final part of this late Schrader trilogy working toward a decidedly more optimistic ending than the previous two films. Considering Schrader’s public comments about aging and mortality, I find the lack of any real explosive narrative catharsis here to be pretty emotionally provocative. Maybe people are less like stories and more like plants, living breathing things which need to be tended and manicured rather than words left behind in a notebook.
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The Last Duel 2021
Ridley Scott looked at three leading men who inspire raucous and unabashed heaps of Dudes Rock and dares ask the audience, “Do they?”
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