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Babylon (2022)
perfect film to cheer up
Watching this in a war-time Kharkiv, Ukraine, hoping there won't be any air raids, I had a real good time. Babylon has a feel of a good old comfortable story you can dive in and forget yourself for a moment. And I really appreciate this, since in the past months only really good films could create this veil of comfort and distraction for me.
It also remind of the multiple memoirs of Hollywood stars of the 1920s, the earnest and direct look at the viewer from the other side of the screen is quite visual. And what is particularly interesting, side-stories, some that we never get to fully see, still captivate and are good enough for us to feel that these stories matter.
Shchedryk (2022)
Cosy and Bleak at the same time
I really enjoyed the camera work, simple and sometimes naive plot matched the overall mood of the wartime Ukraine, be it today or the WW2. The beauty of this film is in small details, food and cutlery, children games and objects of the everyday life of then city of Stanislaviv. Its wintery and beautiful, with the unavoidable sense of tragedy. Children play a big part in the film, and it is through children that we can see and experience many aspects of the complex co-habitation of Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish population on the territory of the multilayered Ukrainian West. Soviet and German occupation is portrayed as a series of hardships that each of the national group experience differently, yet, knowing one another, can't help but compare.