Juan Zerpa

Juan Zerpa

photographer / creative director

Favorite films

  • Beau Travail
  • Persona
  • The Metamorphosis of Birds
  • F for Fake

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  • Phoenix

    ★★★½

  • National Anthem

    ★★★★

  • Living Still Life

    ★★★★

  • Suzhou River

    ★★★★★

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  • National Anthem

    National Anthem

    ★★★★

    a film that feels like a warm hug.

    two particular details that made this feel very important and maybe even groundbreaking to me:

    1. trans characters not seen as just a means to a story: these are fleshed-out, fun, incredibly sexy and inspiring kids, living their fullest creative selves without the need for a storyline about their particular transness. no sad subplots addressing how or why they transitioned, no tragic outcomes, no unnecessary questions, just life happening. 

    2. the american…

  • Living Still Life

    Living Still Life

    ★★★★

    i’ve always thought still life was an infinitely more interesting way of calling a particular genre of art than naturaleza muerta (dead nature), which is my language’s way of calling it. and this film confirms it: what a way to find beauty, poetry, and even storytelling in something as stiff and unpleasant as an expired body. 

    and, more importantly, this is what art (and therefore, cinema) is all about: preservation.

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  • The Astronaut Lovers

    The Astronaut Lovers

    ★★★★

    1. nunca pensé ver una película de marco berger y pensar tanto en eric rohmer.

    2. los chicos son más como los árboles, sabes? 

    3. viva el amor, viva el coqueteo, vivan los astronautas.

  • Belle de Jour

    Belle de Jour

    ★★★★★

    “i guess what attracted me about you was your virtue. you were the wife of a boy scout. that’s all changed now. i have principles, unlike you.”

    husson practically gifting séverine the opportunity to go find her definition of pleasure on her own terms and then seriously judging her when he realizes she’s working as a prostitute is the best way to illustrate how much of a hypocritical society we can be towards women.

    apart from that one scene, which…

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