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Auggie

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3. "Strange"
Tue Jan 31, 2023, 05:15 PM
Jan 2023

My very first reaction was "bizarre," so I'm happy I'm not alone. It felt like we were reviewing a slice of time, not film with a usual beginning or end.

The producers did an awesome job with the production too. It began so sterile, so "clean," and then the grittiness of real life slowly emerges and just snowballs. Same goes for the way the music is dealt with, I think -- in the beginning it's treated so lofty and intellectually and then descends to subjectivity and raw emotion.

"Ooddly sympathetic" -- yes!

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Tar [View all] Auggie Jan 2023 OP
That was an excellent (though strange) film, and Blanchett was spectacular. Ocelot II Jan 2023 #1
And even better if you're a Mahler fan! bif Jan 2023 #2
"Strange" Auggie Jan 2023 #3
My choir director adored it wryter2000 Feb 2023 #4
Cate is a great actress rogerballard Feb 2023 #5
I am not musically inclined Farmer-Rick Mar 2023 #6
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