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Modern Reality by SATOSHI KON

The genius of Satoshi Kon really hit me when I saw the first two scenes of Millennium Actress. It is not only a lesson in editing but also in storytelling. I can easily say that it is easily of those moments of cinema for me, which made me skip a heartbeat. “The You in You isn’t the You You think is You,” - Satoshi Kon

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Freezing Time: LE PREMIER HOMME

It was around 4 years back when I discovered Le Premier Homme, the unfinished auto-biographical novel by Albert Camus. It was the same time when I had to watch Gianni Amelio's movie based on the same text. Il Primo Uomo or Le Premier Homme or The First Man is a study of rhythm of editing, and length of framing and pacing in filmmaking.

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