aringu

aringu

find it hard to hate a film hm

Favorite films

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

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  • That Most Important Thing: Love

  • Casablanca

  • Yi Yi

  • Days

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  • Days

    Days

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • White Material

    White Material

    wow this sucked! down w these colonizer apologist films!!

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  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    i could name 5 uncles of mine that talk like the people in this film and i don't even have 5 uncles.

    I think it did Romania so well, and it also did "we live in a society" equally well. It really is a refreshing representation of just frustratingly fascist mindset that we, in our Western-European liberal bubble easily deem as "ignorance" (a very loose poorly supported statement, counter-evidently, the last Dutch election). I have seen more people in their…

  • Just Between Us

    Just Between Us

    The dialogues strike a perfect balance between weaving in cliches that need to be there (because that's how middle-schoolers are - they talk from what they hear in movies) and good ol' mumblecore-esque rawness. I love how awkward the changes in topic are. I love how the characters are not written to be consistent and self-conscious, while still not relying on tropes of extremity (the innocent "new girl", the cool guy) - they are only as much of tropes as they imagine themselves to be!