aashpatel

aashpatel

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • La Chimera
  • City of God
  • PlayTime

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  • The Panic in Needle Park

    ★★★

  • The French Connection

    ★★★★

  • Perfect Blue

    ★★★★

  • The Double Life of Véronique

    ★★★★

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  • La Chimera

    La Chimera

    ★★★★★

    Actually a perfect film. Stunned from start to finish. Everything from dialogue, artistic direction, cinematography, motifs, pacing, emotion, score, storytelling was done masterfully. I was quite literally in awe the entire time. Holy shit!!!!!!!!

  • Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

    An overwhelming meditation on existence, creativity, and mortality. As intricate as it is ambitious, Kaufman’s masterpiece dives deep into the mind of Cotard, a theater director obsessed with capturing the vastness of life within a single production. The narrative, like life itself, spirals inwards and outwards simultaneously. Caden constructs an ever-expanding replica of New York City inside a warehouse, populating it with actors playing people from his life. This recursive project grows to mirror his inner turmoil: his anxieties about…

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