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Anemone

2025

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Brett Alan Dewing
Oct 06, 2025
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I have seen a few reviews which called this film “utterly joyless” and “couldn’t see a reason for making it.” What they have (somehow) failed to realize is that the joy is in the shape of the thing—in its lilt and line and lifting. The beauty is in the thing itself—its shine and shadow and shivering. That its reason is every shot that cuts away too soon…

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