Review of The Witches of the Orient (2021) by Josh Kupecki for Austin Chronicle — 14 Jul 2021
As he did with his previous doc, 2018’s John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, Faraut finds and obsesses over the rhythm of bodies in motion, using repetition and cross-cuts of the team’s training footage and gameplay with anime sequences and textile manufacturing.
These collisions, set to music from Portishead and Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, are the heart of Witches, hypnotic patterns of serene velocity.
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This review of The Witches of the Orient (2021) was written by Josh Kupecki and published by Austin Chronicle on 14 Jul 2021.
The Witches of the Orient has generally received positive reviews.
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