Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Yunan 2025

  ★★½ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  Euro romp

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  Kontinental '25 2025

  ★½ Watched 18 Feb 2025

  Not Jude’s finest.

Popular reviews

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  La Chimera 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Oct 2023

  This gem of a film was only enriched far more through a rewatch.

  Following the life of Arthur (Art-Ur) a grifter who passes through various missions rescuing ancient Etruscan works of art, La Chimera is about binaries - particularly that of life and death, absence and presence.

  Battling the heartache of losing his lover Beniamina, Arthur continues to seek life in the dead objects underground with his motley Tombaroli (a kind of Fellini-esque troupe of disenchanted fellows) selling them in…

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  If I Had Legs I’d Kick You 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2025

  Straight up film of the festival so far. Maybe Jude or Linklater can beat it but this was well worth the hype. A film tinged with Bergman humanism and Polanski-esque supernaturalism that's sort of an anti-feminist feminist film with a striking Rose Byrne who is knockout in every single scene. Chefs kiss