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Companion 2025
Companion is a serviceable thriller, with dashes of comedy and some slight horror, but ultimately I left unsatisfied. I was hoping for something that would commit a bit more to examining its themes a bit more deeply, or which would go for a more intense tone.
Instead, the film is a bit of a hodge podge of different tones and ultimately it never really feels as unique as it otherwise could as a a result. In particular, I really felt…
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House of Tolerance 2011
Difficult to explain why this is so good, but it just is. I’ve seen very few films that have such a well developed and immersive sense of place and time; the Apollonide is so well realised and the relationships between the prostitutes who work there provide for a continually unique experience.
It is the relationships between the women here that really makes the film interesting. These are the perspectives we don’t see often, of a group of women who exist…
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The Seventh Seal 1957
The question of life’s meaning and God’s existence (or lack thereof) is one that I am really interested in, and is something I have genuinely struggled with in the past and to this day. So when I saw that an extremely acclaimed director in Ingmar Bergman had made a film purporting to deal with this topic head on, I was excited to watch it, and see how it addressed the issue.
However, I must say that I found myself heavily…
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Past Lives 2023
Past Lives is, by an absolute country mile, the best film of 2023 I’ve seen so far. It is an achingly moving yet perfectly tender portrayal of the lives of three people, and the enormous emotional impact that one woman’s childhood immigration has on her life and those that she loves.
Nora, played by Greta Lee, moved from South Korea to Canada, and then to New York, when she was 12, leaving behind Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), her classmate who…
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