arslonga

arslonga

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Blind Chance
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Holy Motors

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  • Beyond Our Ken

    ★★★½

  • Ready O/R Knot

  • Shrek

    ★★★★½

  • Scream VI

    ★★½

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  • Beyond Our Ken

    Beyond Our Ken

    ★★★½

    It may not have enough content to fill its runtime but here is a story that is actually worth telling.

    And almost all the stylistics (and that heavy-handed soundtrack) work


    出哂字幕先加句Tolstoy 既quote 係咩事lol

  • Ready O/R Knot

    Ready O/R Knot

    幼稚同牽強到一個點
    想像唔到係戲院會播既電影


    不過Michelle(同談)真係交足功課
    Every credit of this film go to these wonderful actresses of our time.


    三個男演員都好似不在狀態
    浮誇到出戲(導演問題?)

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  • Stalker

    Stalker

    ½

    Decent cinematography and misc-en-scene don't mean you can inflict excruciating sluggishness to your viewers, not when your characters are strolling , and sometimes philosophising but only at the level of a high schooler, for over 2 hours. Not even by the standard of 1980.




    Just watch Solaris.

  • Taste of Cherry

    Taste of Cherry

    That ending doesn't change the fact that it's a drab, lifeless and repetitive feature film which could have been a short. Calling these conversations profound is a generous hyperbole, almost an insult to the long list of powerful, complex discussion on the subject of suicide.


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    "Yes, there is a humanistic feeling underlying the action. Yes, an Iranian director making a film on the forbidden subject of suicide must have courage. Yes, we applaud the stirrings of artistic independence in…