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A veces en inglés / Sometimes in Spanish

Favorite films

  • Inland Empire
  • It Follows
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Dolls

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  • The Things You Kill

    ★★★★½

  • Cactus Pears

    ★★★★

  • Zodiac Killer Project

    ★★★½

  • The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

    ★★★★

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  • The Things You Kill

    The Things You Kill

    ★★★★½

    ¿Y si toda nuestra vida ha sido una pesadilla? ¿Y si es tan sólo en los últimos momentos cuando nos damos cuenta? Y luego recordamos y vemos que siempre hubo pistas. Silencios, rarezas, oscuridades, momentos incómodos.
    Eso es The Things You Kill.

  • Cactus Pears

    Cactus Pears

    ★★★★

    Cactus Pears understands that identity is a fluid process of creation and formation, of gain and loss, of physically or metaphorically struggling with some sort of returning. It is humble (as its characters are) in accepting the melancholy that emerges from an inevitable asynchrony in our relationships, while not falling into any sort of pessimism. It extends this philosophy through its form (see: colorization, editing, sound design) in addition to its content (as really most film should do to justify…

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  • Marry My Dead Body

    Marry My Dead Body

    ★★★½

    Marry My Dead Body is almost too maximalist: too many genres, too many plot threads, too many naked butt cheeks. It dangerously goes to the edge of these things, but just enough to annoy you a little, then actually having its maximalism work for it by eliciting an almost endless thread of interesting questions: When/why do oppressed populations weaponize the tools of their oppressors (and when/why might this be ok)? How is Taiwanese gay cultural acceptance tied to western gay…

  • Zapatlela

    Zapatlela

    ★★★

    During one of the musical numbers in Zapatlela, we hear the lyric “I am possessed by your love”.
    Zapatlela (meaning possessed) invites us to ponder what possesses us. Is it the endless consumerism imposed by mass-produced toys in the United States? Is it a rage that lives inside a police constable’s heart? And, yes, as our relatable Aavdi belts, is it a love so uncontrollable that it defeats all social customs?
    What possessed Mahesh Kothare to create a loose remake…

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