Lucrecia Martel’s new documentary feature Nuestra Tierra is a portrait of a particular community on a particular plot of land in a particular municipality, but it opens in the non-descript vacuum of space.
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Ryan Bedsaul is a writer and independent filmmaker. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Current Affairs, and on his Substack Besides the Mise-en-scène.
Spend enough time within the minimalist aesthetics of Hong Sang-Soo's cinema and it can be difficult to leave the respite it provides. His films are slower than slow, quieter than quiet—yet completely absorbing once their rhythms take hold, lulling one into a kind of contemplative state increasingly difficult to occupy in a world overcrowded with headlines, hot takes, and computer-generated graphics.