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Philip Matthews
@secondzeit
Almost the last NZ journalist on Twitter. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. These opinions are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
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Marvellous film, now on Netflix
The South Korean writer and director Lee Chang-dong makes beautiful films about terrible things. In his latest work, “Possible Love,” the terrible events have already occurred. In a town where, two years prior, a workers’ strike following mass layoffs was brutally suppressed, a documentarian is trying to make a film about the laid-off workers. She zeros in on a couple as the working-class foundation of her vérité masterpiece and pursues them to unburden themselves for her own artistic gain. “Lee seems to be acknowledging his own potential for dramatic exploitation, if not of his characters, then of the events that inspired the story—an automaker’s restructuring in Korea in 2009 that threatened thousands of layoffs, leading to both a strike and a police crackdown,” Justin Chang writes. Read his full review: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/SZ4cH8View quoted post on X
I didn't know Pitchfork was still going
To be honest, this is the most we've heard from Vanessa Weenink in the past three years (and I live in the electorate) stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361057…
www.stuff.co.nz ‘They hate us’: Outgoing National MP says party is pulling too far to the right Vanessa Weenink said her constituents in Banks Peninsula told her they hated her party after it had moved too far to the right. 