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Recent reviews

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  The Worst Person in the World 2021

  ★★★★½ Added

  Ten years after "Oslo, August 31st" and you can see why in the review I did for the latest, I compared Trier with such heavy-name auteurs. I would even dare. to say this is exponentially better, more entertaining, more dynamic, yet more ephemeral. The balance is such for experienced artists. They understand meaning in film shouldn't steal your energy (the spectator) trying to figure out the details. Nor should it allow you to go without a seed being planted. The…

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  Oslo, August 31st 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Aug 2022

  It's been a while since I became really invested on an array of work from a particular director. After a year full of in-depth looks at historic figures in the medium from all across the globe (I know your cinephile ego wants names, some of them: Ozu, Truffaut, Jodorowski, Cchytilova, Kalatozov, Kurosawa, Yoshida, in between many others) I can notice Joachim Trier is from that generation, or "kind" really, that would proudly claim himself as a Cinema geek. His films…

Popular reviews

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  My Skin, Luminous 2019

  Watched 29 Oct 2019

  TIFF nominated a fully Mexican folklore-based film for a good reason. This film drags the situation from the conventional to the surreal and abstract so smoothly and accurately, you don't even notice when it's over.

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  Lost in Translation 2003

  Rewatched 07 Feb 2019 1

  I re-watched this film as an exercise, I still believe this as one of the best films I've ever watched. The subtle contruction within emptieness: motivation and emotion is one of a kind. Sofia Coppola's awareness about personal relations when it comes to in verbal and physical interactions is uncomparable and outsteps the averageness.