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  L'Argent 1983

  ★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  A style so distant and impersonal but at some point it did manage to make me care which is some kind of achievement. This has to be at least partly the reason why these 90 minutes feels like 2.5 hours (which is not a criticism so much as merely an observation - sometimes it's nice to feel time; enjoyment can make time pass quickly but it's not a defining factor). Performances are so rote it feels almost ritualistic probably serving some purpose but is lost on me.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Tropes and caricatures aplenty, bordering on eye-rolling cliche constantly but the undeniable craft and detail present in every frame has me smitten. One thing no one can argue about Eggers' films is that he commits to the bit and that is what keeps me coming back. Call me a Eggerlomaniac if you will. I am Eggsnacious. An Eggerstan. Ok ok I'll stop.

  Eager Eggers eggs on execs to excite-- ok sorry-

  (eggtoplasm) ok I'm done.

  edit: added more stars because…

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  Oasis 2002

  ½ Watched 19 Feb 2021

  There was a period of time during my formative years when I severely got into Korean cinema. It was like a goldmine I discovered where the strike rate of incredible films just seemed significantly better. However, just like most things, this obsession waned over time and once the Honeymoon is over is when you start to become aware of the cracks. In this case, it is the tropes that Korean cinema keeps coming back to as well as the apparent…

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  Paradise: Love 2012

  ★ Watched 02 Dec 2020

  The entirety of this film could be summed up in a typical newspaper headline: "White German Women Travel to Kenya for Sex Holiday".
  Done.
  Fin.

  Nothing else happens. Sure, the photography is lovely; the performances are great, but we sit thru countless extensive awkward and racially insensitive scenes only for our naïve protagonist to learn nothing and suffer no repercussions for her shortcomings.
  But maybe that's the point? I don't know.
  If that is the point, it sucks.
  If that wasn't, then whatever it was meant to be was completely lost on me.

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