jasmine28

jasmine28

Favorite films

  • As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • Decalogue I
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Twin Peaks: The Return

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  • Ulysses' Gaze

    ★★★★★

  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    ★★★★★

  • A Real Pain

  • The Brutalist

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  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    Twin Peaks: The Return

    ★★★★★

    Regained the ability to fully engage with something, after a long time of passively consuming. The three years of being morosely disconnected from my surroundings, as the world is destroying itself, had some action dissipating and somehow making sense. My appreciation might not lie in the cinematographic quality itself, but in the poetical full circle that was created. Questions raise other questions and in between, in that interstice, lies the essence.

    After 2 years, a new addition to my favorites list.

  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    Failed the Bechdel test badly, huh

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  • Eternity and a Day

    Eternity and a Day

    ★★★★★

    There’s this weird isolating power that Eternity and a day had on me, almost as if there were barriers placed on the sides of my TV, almost as if there’s this huge flower inside of me that has no room to bloom anymore. My words could never do it justice, but only spoil it and maybe diminish its greatness. Added to my favorites.

  • Pirosmani

    Pirosmani

    ★★★★★

    An artist’s journey through life, carrying himself from disappointment to disappointment, as his desire to simply paint is not sustained by any kind of economic skill. Finding one’s individuality as an artist is so complex and sometimes people are the ones that stand in the way of achieving it, either willingly or not. This film is so utterly beautiful in all its austereness. A sisyphic walk on damp moors bathed in shadow and fog, on which one can keep walking…