Favorite films
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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
AS BEAUTIFUL AND AS TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN, ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR
mother
nicely made but find it hard to get on board with that kind of empty romanticism , hey wait what if that's the point so maybe her empty obsession with guy isn't actually about a guy ... ohhh ...
eh still ...
finally saw this in the cinema for the first time after nigh on 20 years of home watches. putting it in such a large space (downstairs at the PCC) really hit home the chasmic emptiness and deep deep loneliness in this film.
i remember it being praised when i was little for its attn to detail in the background animation, a feeling of life in the hustle n bustle of the market scene, though this time and the sparse score…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
really truly fantastic. a film that conforms to the opening shot principle i heard a while back. it opens with seemingly innocuous chatter in pitch black, immediately we're placed in the perspective of the son. it is followed by a bouncing ball falling down the stairs with the dog coming to retrieve, foreshadowing the son's revelation in the film's final act wherein the dog is the key to understanding his father's fall. the boy's dog literally functions as his eyes…