Duarte Santos

Duarte Santos

Favorite films

  • Laurence Anyways
  • The 400 Blows
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • Masculin Féminin

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  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

  • Barbie

    ★★★★★

  • Good Bye, Lenin!

    ★★★★

  • Maurice

    ★★★★

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  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★★★

    Thank you, Greta

  • Good Bye, Lenin!

    Good Bye, Lenin!

    ★★★★

    A favourite

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  • Easter Eggs

    Easter Eggs

    ★★★★

    In this European cartoon short film, which looks a lot like Beavis and Butthead but the comedy is replaced with toxicity and melancholy, we see two young men trying to find parrots to trade them for a mountain bike.
    Every square frame could be framed into any contemporary art exposition wall, since every shot is greatly thought and designed. This 90s' styled environment is cleverly used to show the sadness and damage that toxic masculinity causes in typical male friendships.…

  • The Demons of Dorothy

    The Demons of Dorothy

    ★★★★

    In this clever critique of the world of queer cinema we see a quite odd mix of pop culture, queer cinema and francophone cinema references which build in a quite bizarre and grotesque looking.
    Action scenes, botox, big boobs and queer stereotypes (and a hilarious villain called Xena Lodan, a parody of Xavier Dolan) unite in a really interesting, funny and iconic short movie which uses and abuses of 80s terror movie visual effects and clichés.