★★★★★ : totally loved it
★★★★ : would watch it again
★★★ : had a good time
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Parthenope 2024
HIGHLY DISTURBING scenes
Parthenope is an allegory of Napoli and wasted beauty. She was gifted from birth with beauty and wealth, it all turned out as scams. Bearing the brunt of men desire and guilt damaged her.
I guess Sorrentino used these disgusting scenes as a provocation to show taboos in this Napolitan society: incest, patriarchy and religious pervs.Translated from by -
Autumn Days 1963
I should be bored by this kind of melodrama but I think I am obsessed with delusional girls from Gavaldón. This is quite similar to La otra (1946) in the topic of inventing an identity to escape a social condition.
It’s a graceful stroll of a solitude alongside piñatas, pastries and celebrations. Pina Pellicer is stunning in this role.Translated from by
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The Brutalist 2024
There is no promised land for wandering souls. People who survived a genocide will remain strangers wherever they go. Rejected from their land, tolerated elsewhere, they will become strangers to themselves.
The Brutalist has flaws but it stands still as an outstanding summary of traumas, dispossession, hypocrisy, violence, fascination, despair.
The first part of the movie was pure perfection to me.Translated from by -
Her 2013
Besides the relationship with AI, the movie explores so many reflections: how our modern environments are designed to isolate us, how we conceptualize human development (is our capacity to love expandable or limited? Can we feel emotions with the same intensity again?), or what’s the definition of a real relationship.
Many quote resonated so strong:
“Sometimes I think I’ve felt everything I’m ever gonna feel, and from here on out, I’m not gonna feel anything new … just … lesser…Translated from by
