Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Emmanuelle 2024

  ★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  Where to start?
  It doesn’t work; it just doesn’t work at all.
  
  Diwan probably watched, at least, the original one.
  You can clearly see callbacks to the first one.
  I don't know if she bothered to watch the rest of the "Kristel trilogy" or read Arsan's novel, but she seems so unfamiliar with what makes Emmanuelle… Emmanuelle.
  
  It’s about exploring, but it feels timid in its exploration; it’s about sex, but it feels sexless. Very little in regards to the…

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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 Jan 2025

  It still hits, every single bit hits.

Popular reviews

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  Joyride 1997

  ★ Watched 06 Nov 2021

  A poor man’s Lynchian movie.
  Afraid to be gayer. Afraid to be interesting.
  Tobey Maguire is both amazing and insufferable.

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  Water Drops on Burning Rocks 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jul 2021

  It is the gay/French/better version of “Malcolm & Marie”.

  I fucking love Ozon.