eiennotoso

eiennotoso

Favorite films

  • Sans Soleil
  • The Image Book
  • Electric Dragon 80.000 V
  • Inherent Vice

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  • Putin

    ½

  • Bitter Gold

    ★★

  • About Dry Grasses

    ★★★★★

  • Caught by the Tides

    ★★★★½

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    yawn! what a drag and what shit! maybe it would have been passable some 40 years ago.

    make up your mind if you want to be a good b-movie or an artsy fartsy body horror film.

    also violates the basic rules of a good sci-fi story. no clear rules and breaks them whenever convenient.

  • Calcutta 71

    Calcutta 71

    ★★½

    In retrospect:
    weak in form and content.
    form attempts to historicize but fails. the disjunctive form jumps and hopes to invoke a presentist attack but fails to invoke anything except liberal humanist pathos and "calling-out" hypocrisy because there is something wrong at core of the formal arrangement and the content therein.

    Ray is right in a sense, for all its French avant-garde-ness the film is all too Indian.

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  • Joyland

    Joyland

    ½

    Derivative european aesthetic. Calculated, clichéd themes and writing. So bad. Hyped. Badly edited. Contrived.

  • Dhuin

    Dhuin

    ★★

    The gimmick of 4:3 to evoke feeling closed in and tired usage of cold European colour palette feels forced and out of date.

    Miles better than director's first film though.