Wow, text search in Mastodon, finally!
At first I thought it didn't work because I tested it with Diao Yinan. Nobody but me had mentioned him (apparently). But with Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi, I'm able to find results. I mean, actual results. Of people talking about them. So I can find interesting content with a specific search. In Mastodon.
Without text search, Mastodon isn't doing it for me. I can't search for "August in the Water". I can't search for "Gakuryū Ishii". I can't search for Riit, Aasiva or Chatmonchy. I can't find the content I love to follow and interact with people, share thoughts and then discover new things.
Sorry.
You've got to love August in the Water (水の中の八月; Gakuryū Ishii, 1995). Its mesmerizing visuals, its baffling mystery, its great set of characters, its riveting music and its crazy development. Everything seems to be there just for you to love it. This is a good measure of just how beautiful cinema can be.
Watch it on YouTube or Internet Archive. #Movies
If You Dare Desire... (Debalina Majumder, 2017) takes off from the story of two young girls, Swapna and Sucheta, who were in love and died by suicide together in Nandigram, West Bengal, India. As in the documentary "And the Unclaimed" (2013), we learn that the heavy opposition they faced was a key factor in their death. But here we see them escape and seek freedom in a new life. One of the most beautiful and touching films I've ever seen.
Febrero, 2011. En una pequeña aldea de Bengala Occidental, Swapna y Shucheta, dos mujeres jóvenes que se amaban, se suicidaron y dejaron una carta en la que reclamaban amor, vida, reconocimiento… una carta que cuestionaba la violencia, el odio, la invisibilización.