Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2024

  In all its excess, speed and intensity, this movie is a slice of life.

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  My Mister 2018

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Jul 2024

  ”If you don’t consider it to be important, then others won’t, either. If you take it seriously, others will too. That’s how the world works. You’re the one who decides that. What happened in the past means nothing. As long as you think it’s nothing, it’s nothing.”

Popular reviews

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  Samurai Rebellion 1967

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Apr 2018

  "This is the cruelest form of tyranny. It runs counter to the laws of humanity and cannot be condoned by the heavens. If our petition is refused, this shameless act of tyranny shall be made known throughout Japan's sixty provinces."

  The samurai version of civil disobedience, presented with Greek tragedy elements. What a great film!

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  The Florida Project 2017

  Watched 22 Dec 2017

  Depicting so vividly, so accurately, what it feels like to be a child is a hard enough task for an adult. Presenting, however, the struggle of a whole social class without a hint of criticism towards any of the characters -even those who seem to repeat the same mistakes- marks a truly sensitive person. I didn’t know Sean Baker, but I will be keeping an eye on him from now on. The colourisation reminded me of Wes Anderson but the…