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One of the criticisms most often addressed to series is their lack of style, of staging, to the detriment of a serpentine plot. Too often still, our fellow film critics will say of an uninspired film that it is shot like a series. A slightly contemptuous and short-sighted shortcut. Let us pass on the fact that for several years,
Mad Men
,
The Scarlet Handmaid
, certain episodes of battles of
Game of Thrones
or brawls of
Peaky Blinders
dynamite this prejudice. If it takes ultimate proof, turn and waver at the emotional and visual force of
The Underground Railroad
on Amazon Prime Video, An Odyssey
Into
The Darkness Of Slavery And The United States.
Barry Jenkins
antebellum
.
For his first series, the director, admittedly from the 7th art, delivers ten episodes of a brutal and epic fresco where each shot is a masterpiece, each camera movement has a goal.
Poetry, magical realism, it is also what underlies the esoteric
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