ethanat

ethanat

5 stars for pretty colours

Favorite films

  • Past Lives
  • Look Back
  • Decision to Leave
  • The Handmaiden

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  • There Will Be Blood

    ★★★★★

  • Close-Up

    ★★★★★

  • Swing Girls

    ★★★★½

  • The Hangover

    ★★★½

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  • There Will Be Blood

    There Will Be Blood

    ★★★★★

    I held back from watching this because why would I want to watch a 2.5hr movie centred around oil? But There Will Be Blood is truly one of those films where you have to see it to believe how incredible it is. Both Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano put up all-time great performances, it’s hard not to gush over them even as someone that doesn’t really pay much heed on acting. The characters that they play, Danial Plainview and Eli Sunday,…

  • Close-Up

    Close-Up

    ★★★★★

    “With every good film I see, I feel reborn. It feels as if I made it myself, as if it were my creation.”

    It’s incredible how this even got made. I’m not eloquent enough to describe how this made me feel because there is just so much to be impressed by. This is really filmmaking at its rawest. The event in Close-Up revolves around Sabzian, and it is one so uniquely human that his expression for his love of art and film will definitely captivate you. 

    Rest in peace, Sabzian. You are forever immortalised in cinema history.

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  • Look Back

    Look Back

    ★★★★★

    They are so lucky to have each other.

  • Haru

    Haru

    ★★★★½

    The ending got me smiling so hard, this was so cute and wholesome! And the soundtrack!

    Going to start bringing a floppy disk around with me and see what happens.