At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down
by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even
by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and
egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces
by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.
The grandiose - manipulative domain (also named narcissism) is characterized
by verbal and manipulative abilities, superficial charm,
egocentricity and glibness.
But no, she would rather pander to the
egocentricity of a colleague from her legal fraternity whose only and sole desire is self - aggrandizement and free access to a system developed and paid for
by the many hard - working Realtors who, over the years, contributed, enhanced and modernized what today exists as an effective tool serving their profession.