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Sundance 2025 Review: BUNNYLOVR, Gen Z Cam-Girl Faces Existential Crisis

Pace everyone’s favorite Greek philosopher, Socrates, if the unexamined life isn’t worth living, then the unexamined cam life — as in cam-girl life — is probably a close second or even a distant third.   That lack of self-exploration, of self-examination, and self-analysis permeates writer-director-actor Katarina Zhu’s fascinatingly opaque, ultimately frustrating character study, Bunnylovr, and the singularly named cam-girl character, Rebecca, who Zhu essays in the film.   When we first meet Rebecca, a Chinese-American woman in her mid-twenties, she’s in her (un)natural element, going through the usual cam-girl motions, engaging in banal chit-chat with the lonely, horny users on the other side of the flickering computer screen. It’s purely transactional for Rebecca, a needed supplement to her meager income as an office assistant for…

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UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Review: Beautiful, Funny Paean to Canada

Immigration is a hot-button issue in several Western countries as they reconcile the ways in which it is transforming their national identity. Even in the United States, it remains an active tug-of-war. But in Canada, it is a fait accompli, a settled matter, as Canada has largely embraced its destiny as a nation of people from all over the world.   Matthew Rankin, in his magnificent new film Universal Language, offers a beautiful paean to Canada’s unyielding embrace of multiculturalism. It would almost be poignant if it weren’t so damn funny.   Univeral Language is an absurdist comedy that is not just a great Winnipeg film, but a great Canadian film. It is a film made by Canadians, for Canadians and extolls Canadian values. In…

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