Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Picnic on the Grass 1959

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  The priority of devoting oneself to the happiness of another, in the singular, rather than to the happiness of others, in the plural.

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  Rumble Fish 1983

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  I love the scene where Cage humiliates Dillon, with the moving clouds in the background behind Dillon, and their reflections on the bar’s glass appearing detached from the context of their argument. It mirrors how beauty remains indifferent to human suffering or humiliation.

Popular reviews

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  Waiting 1974

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2024

  Curiosity killed the boy.
  Desire doesn't have a specific object but is rather an ensemble. The object of his desire is the tinted, delicate hand of the woman, as much as the elegance of a glass bowl and their relationship. When he enters the woman's place and crosses the wooden door (one of the elements of the structure of his desire), reality punishes him severely, and the image of his desire crumbles. He desperately strains to revive it.

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  Beau Travail 1999

  ★★★★ Added

  Andrew Chan: "Galoup’s humanity is confirmed not through a profession of guilt, but in a new take on the highly regimented movements he has performed his entire career in the Legion: a furious, solitary breakdance that allows him to finally let loose."