Movie review: Unfolding in reverse, 'The Tsugua Diaries' might be 2022's most glorious summer movie
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jun 06, 2022
3 minutes
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In one of the loveliest sequences in "The Tsugua Diaries," a sly, summery delight from Portugal, two men and a woman raise a series of wooden beams. As they work together — patiently, intuitively, almost wordlessly — the structure they're building gradually takes shape, and so, piece by piece, does this wondrously playful and mysterious movie. At one point midscene, the woman cautiously turns her head away from one of the men, who has a bandana wrapped around his face. You'll recognize the gesture; maybe you've done it
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