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Roo

Roo has written 3 posts for Directors Notes

LFF2010: Winter Vacation

It’s frustratingly difficult to get hold of Hongqi Li’s previous films Routine Holiday and Hao Duo Da Mi, even in his native China, so I’m coming to Winter Vacation as a Hongqi Li novice. I understand he’s better known as a poet, though I haven’t been able to read up on him much. But believe [...]

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LFF2010: Attenberg

If we’re going to attach Attenberg to a genre, I suppose it would be a ‘rites-of-passage’ movie, though it’s pretty far removed from what you might imagine if I told you that its about a young woman coming to terms with love and death in a small coastal town. But Attenberg is full of surprises. [...]

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DN LFF09: Enter The Void – Gaspar Noe

There is a particular kind of critic that points at the work they’re reviewing and says ‘Yeah, well, if I had done it, I would have done it like THIS’. I generally hate those kinds of reviews and I only point this out because I’m ashamed that I’m kind of going to do the same [...]

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