Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Loro 2 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  Sorrentino, the great contemporary screenwriter of animals? Incisive watch in Trump time.

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  The Sunday Woman 1975

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Feb 2025 1

  This film is set in Turin, and Marcello grew up in Turin, and Italian cinema came from Turin, and I am in Turin!

Popular reviews

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  Vortex 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2021 3

  32 films, 10 days. Fourteen galas, seven documentaries, four Lea Seydoux films, three Tilda Swinton films, two Dutch humiliations, about five near-perfect films, about three terrible films, one Timothée Chalamet proximity, and two heavenly handsome men (Adrian Brody and Louis Garrel), one Jane Birkin bump-in, one Sean Baker bakery meeting and one Bill Murray café collision, many Mark Cousins sightings (he's a fan like the rest of us), countless red carpet steps, one hundred hours of queuing, probably ten hours…

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  Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace 2020

  Watched 23 Jul 2020 1

  From now on, I do believe in an interventionist god