Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Sunset Boulevard 1950

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2025

  What a way to start off the year, amazing movie! Norma's character is one of the best in cinema coupled with a fantastic performance by the lead actress. Norma's character study of her being a former star now in her sunset but still refusing to move on and continuing to live in the grandeur delusions that she is still a star is done really well and the environment really helps in establishing that. As we enter the mansion it's almost…

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  Persona 1966

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Dec 2024

  This is not really a proper review or anything just throwing out my thoughts incoherently. Also spoilers ahead obviously

  
  Considered to be mount Everest of cinema by some not because of its length (it's pretty short) but because how hard it can be to interpret it. I'm still not fully sure about mine, but I still consider it a masterpiece of its medium both in the ideas it explodes and how well made it is a film.

  Elisabet Vogler is…

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  Pather Panchali 1955

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Oct 2024

  Satyajit Ray's debut film and what's usually considered his masterpiece. Despite it probably being the best in the trilogy it's the one I struggle the most to talk about. A movie about a poor family in Bengal (India) during British era struggling to live. The movie does a really great job showcasing the condition and struggles of the family while also establishing the characters in the family really well - Whether that be the cheerful and simple-minded Harihar (father), the…

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  Apur Sansar 1959

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Oct 2024

  What an amazing end to this masterpiece of a trilogy, the last section had me really emotional all over again. The trilogy overall is among my top favorites in cinema

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