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Ecuador0:00/412.8213331× I try to watch these films with no foreknowledge. I may have an awareness of genre, and I can't help seeing the cover of each film, but generally I'm not aware of what the film is about. Sometimes that works for the
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Romania0:00/336.4481× I struggled with The Whistlers, a Romanian film, and for reasons it’s taken me some time to understand. Obviously most of the films watched for this blog will be in other languages. I expect that. And I don’t mind watching a film that’s
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Paraguay0:00/324.4161× The thing about thrillers is that they’re highly structured, or at least they should be. Things happen in thrillers that don’t usually happen in real life. Crucially, for a thriller to actually cohere, the separate elements of the plot all need to tie together
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Palestine0:00/156.3093331× It’s very hard to watch a film which is blatant propaganda and maintain a consistent response. I’ve tried throughout this journey to view all of the films on their own merits, while still being mindful of local differences. It’s as objective as I
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DRC0:00/219.4561× I know very little about the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so I had no idea what to expect of a film from there. I knew it was a thriller. I knew it was the first film that had been made in the country for quite