esmedee

esmedee

all films innocent until proven guilty

Favorite films

  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • Paris, Texas
  • The Double Life of Véronique
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

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  • Grand Theft Hamlet

    ★★★½

  • Ordet

    ★★★★½

  • The Last Showgirl

    ★★★½

  • The Children's Hour

    ★★★★

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  • Grand Theft Hamlet

    Grand Theft Hamlet

    ★★★½

    Fresh and fun and really made me crave diving into the world of Los Santos again

  • Ordet

    Ordet

    ★★★★½

    In both this and Vampyre, Dreyer focuses on the undead body and our relation to it, using sympathy (from the Greek 'feeling together') to place characters in a state of nothingness as they are forced to confront the idea of existence without life. Mikkel mourns the body that he loved. Visually he stops the clock and does not start it again until life has once again been embraced.

    Each character undergoes a test of faith, but the beauty of this…

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  • Brother

    Brother

    ★★★½

    Kinda wholesome how much this guy loves music, Russia and killing folk

  • Geri

    Geri

    ★★★★

    What an absolute HUN relic! So fucking chaotic yet shot so deadpan making this naturally very funny to watch

    Fave bits:
    - the girl who was mourning ginger spice like she’d died, slowly looking through her artefacts in the museum 
    - Geri spitballing ways to stay famous and earnestly coming up with the suggestion of being the next James Bond baddie - ‘i’ll just BLAG IT’ 
    - the section of the film where she suddenly became a United Nations ambassador…

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