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Directed by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós | 154 mins | 2022
In the Bolsonaro-era Brasilia of this incendiary two-hander—the second collaboration between directors Queirós and Pimenta—political resistance takes the form of an all-women gang who steal and refine oil before selling it on to bikers. The melding of documentary style with elements of science-fiction and the Western yields an indelible vision of a gritty, present-day dystopia.
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Film Socialisme
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Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 6 mins | 2006
News of a gonorrhea infection only briefly sours the mood in this early Kalman and Horn short, which telegraphs a cheerful and occasionally violent beach party set in a winkingly lo-fi future. -
Le Gai Savoir
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Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 92 mins | 1969
A pivotal film poised between Godard’s narrative films of the ’60s and radical Dziga Vertov Group works of the ’70s, "Le Gai Savoir" is a work of didactic filmed theater, with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto performing on a black soun...
