Daniel Simons

Daniel Simons

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  • Examen d'entrée INSAS

  • A Whole Night

  • Nanook of the North

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★★

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★

    It delivers - but in a stunted and limited way - where you feel no emotions.

    It avoids the physical mess and emotional clutter that give texture to life. Its wooden and sparse. It’s hard to square how something so big has so little vision. 

    There’s so much thought in the machines, warplanes, weaponry, and armour. But little in the details that immerse us in a world we can believe and feel. The soft soothingly beautiful way a warplane touches…

  • The Beast

    The Beast

    ★★★★½

    Wow. This was a very arresting experience, even to the point of being quite scary (magnified by being in a big cinema with only one other person). The film's multi-period story leads to several different ideas wrestling over each other. While it lacks a clear threading of them all, the overall confusion perhaps adds to its effect, only stressing its fundamental mood of unease.

    It felt important, to me at least, as an expression of the ongoing devaluing of the…

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