Erlend C. L. Birkeland

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Favorite films

  • Little Women
  • Dead Poets Society
  • The Secret Garden
  • La La Land

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  • A Quiet Place

    ★★½

  • Hampstead

    ★★★★

  • She Said

    ★★★★½

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

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  • Better Man

    Better Man

    ★★★★★

    I have probably not seen a better, more entertaining, more interesting biopic. This was amazing in every way and beyond compare. 

    I have loved Robbie Williams’ music since I was little, hearing it play from the speakers at home or in the car on every summer holiday, but I am certain that’s not the sole reason I think his music works so exceptionally well for all the various montages in this film—and there are quite a few of those. I…

  • Inside Out

    Inside Out

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • A Quiet Place

    A Quiet Place

    ★★½

    Halfway through this film I remember exactly why I deeply dislike horror films.

    But I love disaster movies, and this also ticks that box, so I can't cast it off as completely uninteresting, even though too many obvious things happen seemingly just to forward the horror elements. It seems to lack some basic understandings of the noises that humans make at the most consequential moment in their life, and I don't buy that these people can't wear shoes because of…

  • Hampstead

    Hampstead

    ★★★★

    A film that makes you reflect on value, money, what a home is,

    and the beauty of North London.

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  • La La Land

    La La Land

    ★★★★★

    Aaaaaah so lovely, so fun, so engaging about what is, was, and could have been. Lovelovelove 🫶🏻

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    I don’t have much to say besides that watching this is an experience. It was one of the only times I’ve sat in a cinema and felt like everyone there was committed to the value and beauty of film as a medium and craft (that is, 70 mm).

    The film explores multiple complex themes, from escaping war, finding a new way of living, and rebuilding a life for oneself to contending with the challenges of eventually feeling at home where…