Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Tabu 2012

  Watched 29 Jan 2025

  Tabu is a lyrical and sensual tale about the unsettled memories of a colonial past, it’s final witnesses now perishing. The bitter truth here is that colonialism never happened because of some grave inhuman evil. But rather through the most normal everyday indifference towards inequality.

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  Anora 2024

  Rewatched 17 Jan 2025 2

  Seeing this film a second time underlines the tragedy while kind of detaching the comedy. Making the whole infinite money and sex fantasy seem even more acidic than it already appeared to me. It confirms my suspicion that this film is playing checkers and chess at the the same time. Does this make it a perfect film?.. I don’t know. But I respect the tactics of the game, if that makes sense.

Recent reviews

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  Pelikan Blue 2023

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  A fastpaced train-ticket-counterfeiting Hungarian riff on Goodfellas based on real events fusing animation and archive footage to surprising effect. So much to love. Especially when it really gets going, it’s really entertaining and has some amazing moments of accomplishmed montage, original comedy and fascinating history intersecting.

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  Soul Paint 2024

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  This VR experience really stuck with me for the therapeutic out of body experience it creates. Utilizing it’s interactivity to make you look deeper into yourself in a really creative and healthy way.

Popular reviews

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  Viduthalai: Part II 2024

  Watched 31 Jan 2024

  IFFR #28

  Hoe kan ik beginnen zoiets groots te beschrijven. Veelgeprezen Tamil regisseur Vetrimaaran heeft speciaal voor de 53ste edititie van IFFR eenmalig een speciale versie van zijn film Viduthalai in elkaar gezet. De film, een politieke thriller van meer dan 4,5 uur, is om commerciële redenen opgesplitst. Voor IFFR heeft Vetrimaaran deel I en II samengevoegd tot de epische thriller die het is. Met deze versie ging ook het tweede deel in wereldpremière. Waar deel I al een commerciële…

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  Source Code 2011

  ★½ Watched 09 Feb 2024

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