Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  New York Film Diary 1995

  Watched 04 Mar 2025

  Leave the frog alone!

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  Gate of Flesh 1964

  Watched 02 Mar 2025

  A particularly bleak Trümmerfilm, Sirkian in form (cleverly built on his trademark rondeau) and style (with colour as a key element of the mise-en-scène).

Popular reviews

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  All the Mornings of the World 1991

  Watched 13 Feb 2023

  I have listened to the soundtrack many, many times, but never watched the film out of fear, perhaps, that it wouldn't live up to such beautiful music.

  I can say now that it does: every aspect of it is Baroque. From its construction around opposites (authenticity/popularity, technique/emotion, simplicity/ornateness) to its themes of loneliness, silence, and memory.

  A film that is Savall's as much as it is Corneau's and Angelo's.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 20 Oct 2024

  ¿Esto es todo?

  Su ambición agotadora de ser la Gran Película Estadounidense es injustificable por una fotografía insulsa sin sentido del espacio (tiene mucho mérito afear Carrara y Venecia) y por una narrativa prosaica sin sentido del drama (más allá de la manipulación emocional) ni de la Historia (el epílogo es especialmente repulsivo).