One of the many powers of cinema, particularly of the international variety, is its ability to transport audiences. Esteemed AMC high priestess Nicole Kidman champions “that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim, and we go somewhere we’ve never been,” leaving us “reborn.” Movies give us windows into real-world cultures (both current and historical) like Satyajit Ray‘s Apu Trilogy, John Woo‘s Red Cliff, or historical South America in The Motorcycle Diaries. They can equally send us into imagined worlds like Oz (The Wizard of Oz), Middle-earth (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), a galaxy far, far away (Star Wars), or the sandy world of Arrakis(Dune). In Levitating (Para Perasuk), a hopeful spirit channeler works to halt an eviction through perfecting his ability to facilitate trance parties, and with them keep a company from buying and overtaking his village. It’s a beautiful exhibition of a unique culture that finds novel ways to bring audiences into the subjectivity of these ecstatic characters, for a journey that shouldn’t be missed.
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