arina bruk

arina bruk

Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • Oslo, August 31st
  • Fire of Love
  • Phantom Thread

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  • Magnolia

    ★★★★★

  • Surf's Up

    ★★★★★

  • The Descent

    ★★½

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

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  • Magnolia

    Magnolia

    ★★★★★

    the world is mean and there is love and there is regret and sometimes there are frogs

  • Surf's Up

    Surf's Up

    ★★★★★

    nico u weren’t lying this might’ve just changed my life

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

    i watched this on a whim in the third row from the screen, with the picture stretching a little bit beyond my peripheral vision and with my brother who didn’t know (until he looked it up during nicole kidman’s AMC ad) that we were going to watch a horror movie. needless to say! we were in for a ride
    i think that this film is INSANE. in the most wonderful way. gorgeous and enticing and completely chilling and god i’m still thinking about that pigeon

  • Oslo, August 31st

    Oslo, August 31st

    ★★★★★

    devastating, and also somehow completely unimposing.

    an incredible concurrence of delicacy and crudeness in the way that it is simultaneously so restrained and also so overwhelming. it is tender and intimate without being sentimental; raw without being gratuitous.

    i love that it never tells you what to think or how to feel.  it doesn’t beg for your attention or manipulate you in any way; it is only honest. it silently seeps in with a depth that is never explicit, allowing…