Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Chungking Express 1994

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Aug 2024

  Sexiest man and sexiest soundtrack

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  Anatomy of a Fall 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 13 May 2024

  When you do not know what is the truth, it is not a question of what to believe; it is a question of what to decide.

  Academy award for the kid ⭐️

Popular reviews

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  Capote 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Jun 2021

  A writer of importance meets a criminal of unimportance and each looked at the other and saw - or thought they saw - the man they might have been: “It’s as if Perry and I grew up in the same house. And one day he stood up and went out the back door, while I went out the front.”

  Were the paths that formed from the back door and front door respectively sins and successes of society or sins and successes of the individual?

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  Sound of Metal 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2021

  A film that will envelop you in heavy metal (pace), sound distortion (displacement) and - finally - silence (stillness).

  As a person with hearing impairment who wears hearing aids, I was particularly taken by the capturing of hearing difficulties in busy social settings. It is a discombobulating and isolating experience, the subtleties of which were well crafted in the scenes.

  The film reminds me, as it hopefully will remind others who watch it, of the importance of stillness and understanding oneself as a transforming whole - not as something to be fixed.

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