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  Love Exposure 2008

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2021

  You'd think that a four hour movie (yes, FOUR hours! To think the film was originally going to be six hours) would get tiresome, but surprisingly, Love Exposure never once drags. Somehow, it strikes a perfect pace, never too fast and never too slow. It'll have scenes that are so wild and crazy that they're hilarious. It also has scenes that are somber and poetic. Overall, the film takes its time to let the story and characters breathe, making the…

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  Rose Island 2020

  ★½ Watched 24 Dec 2020

  Such a charming real story, translated in a boring silly comedy. I really don't understand how people call it 'a gem', it was quite bad. Bad script, bad actors, super fake special effects . Nothing in this movie is about anarchy, freedom, '68, utopia. An historical fact so surreal, reduced to a stupid lame romance (with the most cheesy soundtrack ever).

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  Upstream Color 2013

  ★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2020

  What begins as a crime story about abduction and the Stockholm Syndrome, melds into a science fiction tale that includes the struggles of modern love. Visually artistic, with an emphasis on soundtrack. Similar in many ways to Andrei Tarkovsky's 2 hour and 41 minute masterpiece "Stalker" about the discovery and exploration of a mysterious world comprised of ordinary objects.

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