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The Guardian - Culture: Film Edit Unfollow Happy new fear: what can films set in 2023 tell us about what lies ahead? by Charles Bramesco Jan 3, 2023 From legalized murder to destructive drones, Hollywood doesn’t have the most optimistic outlook For all the cause we have to believe that this year is the first in a long time that’s less apocalyptic than the last – fascism in the west held at bay, the pandemic gradually receding, Popeyes introducing a blackened chicken sandwich to the menu – those inclined to future panic still have plenty of material to work with. The ever-present menace of climate change hasn’t gone anywhere, if anything accelerating at an exponential rate that constantly bumps up the human species’ expiration date. We’re playing it pretty fast and loose with robotics and AI, to the point that it’s hard to tell whether the proliferation of “lethal autonomous weapons” (a sanitized way of saying “killer robots”) or sentient computer programs represents a graver threat. We’ve got a smörgåsbord of wars, fringe conspiracy theories on the rise, inflation out the wazoo. Just take your pick of bad omens. Continue reading... Continue Reading Alcarràs review – heartbreak and ruin in the Catalan heat by Peter Bradshaw Jan 3, 2023 Carla Simón’s award-winning story of a peach farmer struggling to make ends meet asks many important questions about our relationship with the land and the human cost of progress Capitalism never looked more brutal than in this new Catalan-language movie with nonprofessionals from Carla Simón; it is about an extended family of peach farmers in the town of Alcarràs, people whose unhappiness and dysfunction are created by market forces. It was the winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival and is this year’s Spanish entry for the best international film Academy Award. Simón’s debut was the wonderfully tender childhood study Summer 1993 and Alcarràs is her very accomplished follow-up. I felt it didn’t quite have the same immediately accessible richness and sweetness, but this is a really shrewd, empathic and subtle movie which engulfs you in its dust and sweat and heat. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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