ariatays

ariatays

she attempts to watch and review films

Favorite films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Dou kyu sei – Classmates
  • Minari

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  • Past Lives

    ★★★½

  • DAN DA DAN: First Encounter

    ★★★★★

  • Queen of Tears

    ★★★★★

  • Don’t Cry, Butterfly

    ★★★½

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★½

    This film felt like a single sentence somehow, in its pacing and what it wanted to say. Like a single hum of melody. Beautiful beautiful cinematography and performance, all subtle yet deeply, inwardly evocative. Asian levels of yearning and communication. This is purely just on personal preference terms but I don’t think I connected as well to the tragedy of the whole plot as compared to most other viewers simply because I couldn’t convincingly buy into the “childhood lovers can…

  • DAN DA DAN: First Encounter

    DAN DA DAN: First Encounter

    ★★★★★

    glorious thanks for getting me back properly into watching full serieses of new-age anime

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  • Happyend

    Happyend

    ★★★★½

    so BEAUTIFULLY shot…music ambience tone WRITING casting editing etcetc. everything was so well rounded and sensitive to detail, all loose ends tied up…one of the rare times I can walk away from a film at a film festival and still think about it many moments later because my brain isn’t bogged down by one too many baggages of metaphors. the director’s q&a at the end of the sgiff screening was such a joy to hear as well—just so thoughtful and…