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Favorite films

  • Out 1
  • Syndromes and a Century
  • Eros + Massacre
  • Twin Peaks: The Return

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  • Olivia

    ★★★

  • Fists in the Pocket

    ★★★★

  • Trouble Every Day

    ★★★½

  • Crash

    ★★★★

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  • Thirst

    Thirst

    ★★★★

    Always overawed by how audacious Park's films are, not just conceptually (although a Thérèse Raquin adaptation starring a Catholic priest turned vampire certainly is out there!), but also in terms of their maverick and elaborate camera movements, their feverish tonal twists and often symphonic rhythms and structures. It's not per se, that there's much thematically I find very powerful in his films, at least not in this one, but the vital sensitivity that pulses through every detail of the characters…

  • Girl Picture

    Girl Picture

    ★★★★

    fucking banger. along with persona oddly, a comfort movie for me. god damm girls rock

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  • The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★

    The cruelty is not hidden nor is it absent; it is there, we all know it. The audience and the characters are twined in complicity. The Zone of Interest is by no means a subversive film, nor a subtle or naturalistic film. Reminders of the holocaust are constant and oppresive. (How could they not be?) The characters do thus not live in spite of the monstrosities from beyond the fence; the formal, rigid and, moreover, aestheticized image of family, of…

  • Theorem

    Theorem

    ★★½

    Don't know how to feel about this film. I admire conceptually the notion of a film with this schematic, theoretic construction, and there are plenty of enigmatic stretches of time that I enjoy immensely. But what is this film as a product of thought? How can I understand it? That an ideally flattened image of the bourgeoisie dissolves with the same irreality? The very style of delivery here has the film wrap around into being entertainment for the same crowd…

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