Dani RL

Dani RL

Favorite films

  • Moonstruck
  • The Big Chill
  • Swingers
  • Beau Travail

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★

  • The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

    ★★★★

  • Scenes from a Marriage

    ★★★★½

  • Universal Language

    ★★★½

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  • The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

    The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

    ★★★★

    This is like if Miranda July, Lena Dunham and the Duplass Bros got together to make a film about kink and dating. Actually perfect it’s in humble mundanity and very funny due to tight comedic timing which highlights how absurd the things we do for both work and pleasure actually are.

  • Scenes from a Marriage

    Scenes from a Marriage

    ★★★★½

    Choice devastating quotes:

    Episode 1: “We weren't in love, but both of us were unhappy.”
    Episode 2: “Everything seems puny, grey and undignified.”
    Episode 3: “It feels good to act like a cad.”
    Episode 4: “The way I see it… loneliness is absolute. Anything else is an illusion.”
    Episode 5: “We’re emotional illiterates.”
    Episode 6: “Sometimes it grieves me that I’ve never loved anyone.”

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  • Chocolat

    Chocolat

    ★★★★★

    The natural beauty of Cameroun captured in this film is a stunning backdrop to the ugliness of the white colonial mind. Denis expertly exposes the gross behaviour of settlers in West Africa while anchoring it in her own experiences, through the eyes of a young girl. In a way the gaze does seem quite childlike, in every scene young France is in there is very little dialogue, marking young and age-appropriate incomprehension of the complicated matters surrounding her. Isaac’s de…

  • When Adam Changes

    When Adam Changes

    ★★★½

    Delightfully weird. Fun animation style, somewhere between King of the Hill and Chris (Simpsons artist). Joël Vaudreuil really taps into the feeling of being kinda fat and awkward in a 90s Quebec. The tale is universal but the pâté chinois reveals the spice of our people. The original soundtrack also slaps

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