Illuya

Illuya

🍃Movies are visual poetry.


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Favorite films

  • Yi Yi
  • The Human Condition
  • Love Exposure
  • All About Lily Chou-Chou

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  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    ★★★★★

  • Dust in the Wind

  • The Dreamers

    ★★½

  • Born in Flames

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  • The Dreamers

    The Dreamers

    ★★½

    Never seems to know if it wants to be a tribute to French New Wave, a time piece about uprising in the 60s, or an exploration of incest. As a result, nothing is particularly well developed, and scenes begging for controversy lead to a sudden non-ending.

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    ★★★★★

    Watching the finale of Twin Peaks, and now this, has been an overwhelming experience. I'm filled with so many emotions, some of them indescribable, and there's somehow the feeling that I chose the perfect time to go through this. Fire Walk with Me, when compared to the series, is a ghastly and raw experience: after hearing countless descriptions of and theories about what happened to Laura Palmer, we finally see it all up close. All fascades are torn off. There's…

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  • Yi Yi

    Yi Yi

    ★★★★★

    A peacefully moving look at family and life. The mundane is turned into something beautiful; the Jian family's day-to-day challenges take on a subtle whisper of meaning, and those things we normally see as boring—business shirts, middle-class apartments and family gatherings—become testaments to a resigned love, to the sacrifices we make for life to move on. And so it is with the difficulties, like a grandmother's coma or a long-lost love. Lightning gives way to life, and life gives way to beauty.

    "There's no cloud, no tree, that isn't beautiful. So we should be too"

  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    ★★★★★

    What is humanity? And how much can it endure?

    Kobayashi explores these questions through Kaji, a pacifist sent to manage a labor camp in Manchuria. As the grave realitied of WW2 reach him, his humanism is thrown into crisis. It seems that he is left with two options: to throw away his humanity, guaranteeing his own safety, or to sacrifice himself for the prisoners. The movie introduces a wealth of characters, yet ultimately, they are all there to test Kaji's…

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