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Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
I shouldn't have watched so many French new wave films so close to each other. They're good for the mind but not for my soul. They make me feel too much. They make me feel too sad.
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Hamlet 1996
I have seen this film countless times and I mean COUNTLESS. A few years back over the summer I found myself watching it on loop. It's the film that made me fall in love with the play and it's still my comfort film now.
Back in my Chimes at Midnight review I mentioned how much I love a passion project and this film is exactly that. I don't think Shakespeare actually works fully in a Hollywood style setting, I don't…
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting 1978
This film has made me rethink the way I view visual art so that it now more closely corresponds with the way in which I examine literature. While the main narrator talks about the paintings, I found myself asking the same questions about the film, it each moment circles back to something else. Why are the doors melded with the wallpaper, of course this is natural for old houses but this film decided to have him walk through this rather…
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8½ 1963
I wish I had never watched this film for now as I have seen it I know that nothing else I ever watch will be as visually beautiful as this.
To speak in full honesty, this film did not do a lot for me in terms of its narrative. Sure, the suffering director who " I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway," and while I love this, the film also decides to go down…
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