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Kofi Anane

A staff pick since April. Anane makes records for a living and it shows in what he chooses to film, which is not the performance but the negotiation before the performance. Watch Bayo the engineer, who is the audience surrogate and never announces it. The long take starts at minute nine and runs almost five minutes, and it works because Marisol Okafor cut everything around it tight, so by the time it arrives you are grateful to be let go.

Watched it the night it went up, which I never do, because the trailer had a shot of a woman eating standing up at a kitchen counter and I wanted to know why that wrecked me. It is a film about a season ending and nobody admitting it. The daughter says almost nothing for forty minutes and then says one thing. I put my phone in another room for the second half.

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