Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)

[Ivan Drago]

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[Ivan Drago]

This was phenomenal.

[Peng]

Unsurprisingly more potent in the years since its release on rewatch. I saw some reviews and comments about the "lacking" animation, but I've always thought it fine for this film, working as intimate talking-head-avoiding storytelling, anonymity method, and (intentional or not) distancing device that gives productive rudimentary simplicity to horrific real-life passages while heightening their emotional components.

I didn't make the connection last time, but there's a scene here at the end that reminds me of the doc Welcome to Chechnya's powerful moment of digital masking fallen away to reveal a subject's real face. Flee's similar moment is much more muted and still preserves the anonymity, but the transitioning from animated environment to real-world filming of Amin's home sanctuary, as he walks away from the camera with his loved one, is nonetheless such a stirring, poignant place to leave this film out on. 7.5/10

[MadMan]

I thought this was great, if very tragic and bittersweet.