"It's fascinating to film today's world and I do so without any ideology […] I'm only interested in pictures." So says Albert Serra in a press statement for his new film Pacifiction. While this is more or less impossible, Serra's new movie does indeed create something very close to this idea of pure cinema, in which the power of the art form itself supersedes anything else. As he says, "This was our idea: suppress upon editing everything which, as it referred to a social issue, didn't fit in with pure cinematographic license."

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