giuligno

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Favorite films

  • The Night of the Hunter
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Heat
  • Sunset Boulevard

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  • Paddington in Peru

    ★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Broken Rage

    ★★★½

  • Perfect Strangers

    ★★½

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★½

    A 360° trial of the first movie with many defendants: the fans, the main character and his legacy, the director himself, the entertainment and his ethics…
    A bold attempt (or a lost bet) to make great cinema from a productive/narrative self-sabotage and deformingly mirroring his successful predecessor. 
    It continues thus the field of movies more interesting to debate than to watch.
    The title “Folie à Deux” on one hand contributes to further layering the analysis of the film (Joker & Harley?…

  • The Killer

    The Killer

    ★★★

    About the required impersonality and infallibility of executers (wheter are killers paid by tycoons or directors paid by Netflix), about the ironic dissonance between self-representations and reality, about how life is unpredictable and doesn't respond to rules or algorithms… 
    Another 2023 movie (after Asteroid City, Napoleon, Beau is Afraid ecc.) more interesting than captivating and completely misunderstood by general audience

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  • Broken Rage

    Broken Rage

    ★★★½

    Dr. Kitano and Mr. Takeshi

  • Il Divo

    Il Divo

    ★★★★

    Wisely Sorrentino, with his hallucinated style, remains poised between fascination e repulsion in front of Power.
    An italian horror movie.

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  • A Walk in Time

    A Walk in Time

    ½

    BATISTÜTA
    Apex of Italian cinema. Fuck Neorealism

  • The Palace

    The Palace

    ★★½

    Allegorical genealogy of modern Europe: cadaverous, babelic, submissive.
    Despite so many controversial choices (one above all: the ending), to cast botox freaks is a stroke of genius.
    It’s NOT an authorial/gentifried cinepanettone