Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Guillermo's movies are just gorgeous. A gritty movie with a carneval theme - it almost describes his catalogue. With his name on the movie, you almost expect a Lovecraftian story. This one, though, is less supernatural, more thriller.
I have to admit to myself, that this is 5/5 movie for me. It's just so perfectly executed in every way. I just love it. My most rewatched movie.
Absolutely stunning visual storytelling with great sound design and music. Though, for a book split into two movies, I was surprisingly left with the feeling it should have been split into three. Some times the story progressed so fast, with time and location jumps, that it left me disoriented. And some character introductions and their importance for the story felt too rushed and unfulfilling. Entire characters felt redundant, but would have felt weird to cut from a book adaptation.
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