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  Past Lives 2023

  Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Nothing about any of these characters conveys any sort of emotional interiority or depth; nobody here is a human being. Everything that exists in this movie exists entirely on the surface and is spelled out in the most unambiguous of terms. Everyone who raved on this should have their head examined.

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  Saboteur 1942

  Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Having been led to believe this was simply proto-North by Northwest, I was shocked to find this to be Hitchcock's definitive statement on his adopted country and the most prescient thing you can watch in January of 2024

Popular reviews

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  Diary of an African Nun 1977

  Watched 15 Jan 2021

  This deserves to sit alongside the works of Scorsese, Ferrara, and Schrader in the pantheon of the cinema of Catholic guilt.

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  Aux quatre coins 1949

  Watched 14 Mar 2021

  This short film, made by a then 20 year old Rivette, is interesting as a precursor to both his career and his influence on his cohorts at Cahiers. It is clearly apeing from the dreamy style of Jean Cocteau, but he is also toying with an abstract editing scheme and purposefully incoherent juxtapositions of shots and blocking as a means of creating a sort of "choose your own adventure" narrative. The result is clearly a student film, but one that makes for a fascinating experiment.