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Issue #46: Hypercritic's Valentine's Day | A celebration of love 💌

The Hypercritic Weekly Newsletter
Dear Hypercritics, 
love stories have great space among the works included in our collection. Generations of authors have wondered about the origin of love, struggled to find the right words to describe it, and - when it ends - consolatory verses, such as those in the poems which close this newsletter. 
To prepare you for Valentine’s Day, here is a love itinerary according to Hypercritic 💌

Love in all its forms
➡️ Watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze
➡️ Watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze
The film Portrait of a Lady On Fire is, according to writer and director Céline Sciamma, “a manifesto about the female gaze.”
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➡️ Read Twenty-One Love Poems | No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone
➡️ Read Twenty-One Love Poems | No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone
Twenty-One Love Poems, a pamphlet that was first published in 1987, was later included in the book The Dream of a Common Language.
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➡️ Watch The End of the F***ing World | A psychopathic love story
➡️ Watch The End of the F***ing World | A psychopathic love story
Adapted from a graphic novel by Charles Forsman, The End of the F***ing World is a bleak comedy that combines teenage angst with a dose of dark humor.
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➡️ Read Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only
➡️ Read Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only
The book Normal People is Sally Rooney’s second novel, telling the story of two Irish teenagers from different social backgrounds who fall in love.
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A burning passion
➡️ Watch Wild at Heart | Make love against the world
➡️ Watch Wild at Heart | Make love against the world
Wild at Heart is one of David Lynch's most lively works but also one of the hardest to grasp. Still, it provides a cinematic journey for those who comply.
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➡️ Read The Song of Achilles | A love worth dying for
➡️ Read The Song of Achilles | A love worth dying for
Published in 2011, Madeline Miller’s reinterpretation of the myth The Song of Achilles is the story of war and a love worth dying for.
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➡️ Read Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession
➡️ Read Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession
Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë in 1847, talks about the uncontrolled passion between Catherine and Heathcliff.
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The indescribable world of love
➡️ Watch In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation
➡️ Watch In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation
With In the Mood for Love, Hong Kong movie director Wong Kar-wai shapes a sense of loneliness and expectation through cinematic language.
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➡️ Read A Lover's Discourse: Fragments | The words of love
➡️ Read A Lover's Discourse: Fragments | The words of love
In A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, semiologist Barthes offers an original portrait of the modern lover through an analysis of speech figures.
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➡️ Read Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory | Is love worth it?
➡️ Read Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory | Is love worth it?
After BoJack Horseman, Bob-Waksberg published Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, a collection of short stories about love.
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➡️ Read Samuel Beckett's Cascando | The agony of love
➡️ Read Samuel Beckett's Cascando | The agony of love
Samuel Beckett’s Cascando is a poem written by the Irish author in 1936. The title is a technical term that indicates a decrease in volume or tempo.
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Speaking to the broken-hearted
➡️ Watch Scenes from a Marriage | Gender roles, love and an empty house
➡️ Watch Scenes from a Marriage | Gender roles, love and an empty house
In Scenes From a Marriage, separation looks like a loss: death is a recurring element, and sorrow is treated as a permanent condition
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➡️ Read Love after Love by Derek Walcott | Feast on your life
➡️ Read Love after Love by Derek Walcott | Feast on your life
Love after love is a poem by Derek Walcott that speaks to the broken-hearted and invites them to reconcile with themselves.
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➡️ Read You thought I was that type | Akhmatova’s love anathema
➡️ Read You thought I was that type | Akhmatova’s love anathema
Anna Akhmatova’s You thought I was that type is the love anthem with which she says goodbye to her second husband Vladimir Silejko.
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What’s new 🗞️
➡️ Read Berlinale 2022 | The Bear is yet to come
➡️ Read Berlinale 2022 | The Bear is yet to come
The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival will be in presence, despite the pandemic. Around 200 movies from across the world will be shown.
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Look for the hashtag #BearlinaleHyperJournal and enjoy the festival and the city like a true Berliner! 🐻
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Have a lovely week! ❤️
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