A Bread Factory, Part Two (2018)

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A very provisional attempt to curate the (intentionally) loosely-defined parameters of what I see as an emerging positive trend in international cinema, a certain semi-conscious push against some of the prevailing trends of the past few decades, particularly within festival-ready and/or "independent" cinema. After years of somber, contemplative "slow cinema", quasi-ethnographic neo-Neo-Realism, and (particularly in North America) self-conscious "naturalism" and defiantly inept "mumblecore", these disparate filmmakers are responding with a feverish embrace of narrative, storytelling, self-conscious artifice, forays into magical realism, and above all a rediscovery of FICTION. I'm hereby grouping all of these films, tongue planted firmly in cheek,…