Bruna

Bruna

Architect | You can find my words at Simulacro Mag.

Favorite films

  • The Passenger
  • Black Narcissus
  • My Night at Maud's
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

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  • I'm Still Here

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

  • Duel

  • Light Sleeper

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  • Journey to Italy

    Journey to Italy

    The word “portrait” comes from the Old French portraire, meaning “to portray”. A portrait, as the dictionaries insist, is “a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one
    depicting only the face or head and shoulders”.

    Some faces – or should I say most? – are forgettable, tragically so: at a first glance, their commonness renders them almost indistinguishable from countless others, their features neither sharp nor soft, just there, existing in a dull in-between. Yet, there are…

  • Gloria

    Gloria

    You're my mother. You're my father. You're my mother. You're my family. You're even my friend, Gloria.

    Goodbye, Gena. We will keep the stream flowing for you.

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  • My Night at Maud's

    My Night at Maud's

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

  • The Passenger

    The Passenger

    This piece was originally published on Simulacro Mag.

    Architecture and space are core aspects of Antonioni’s œuvre: they are the frameworks through which we understand his characters’ inner worlds. The Passenger (1975), the final installment in his English-language trilogy, is a beautiful testament to the sophistication and empathy with which the director uses these elements to handle concepts of existential malaise, mortality, and identity.

    This is the tale of David Locke, a renowned yet disillusioned journalist who is presently in…