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  Seven Beauties 1975

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  Given how long I took to review this, I think I have a renewed appreciation for how this movie goes beyond parodying the fascist “New Man” by effectively deconstructing the male gaze - going from initially empowered and abundant to increasingly questioned to entirely severed by the end. There is no longer a creative element to Pasqualino’s gaze in the last few scenes - it is doomed to only see what is actually there after confronting the horrors of the…

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  Stroszek 1977

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  So incredibly endearing

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  Opus 2025

  ★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Now we didn’t have to taint Ayo’s legacy with this, did we?

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  Problemista 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  The yolks in this were eggcellent 

  We cracked up at every “oh no” (pun intended)