Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  PlayTime 1967

  ★★★★ Watched 14 May 2013

  Let's go visit Paris shall we? Ok. What shall we visit during our trip, how about the La Tour Eiffel? No, too boring. The Champs-Élysées? Definitely not. The Sacré-Coeur? Still too boring, you know what, why don't we observe the rapid modernisation and Americanisation of the city? Okay yeah, sounds fun.

  Playtime is just a lot of fun. Over the course of the film Monsieur Hulot travels about Paris with a constant perplexity as he attends appointments and gets dragged…

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  Last Year at Marienbad 1961

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 May 2013

  This was a really amazing film. Never before have I seen images and sound matched so well, with such thought and with such effect.

  The film tells the story of a man trying to convince a married woman that she had made a promise to him on the same day last year. In doing so, we are treated to the man's story and as the narrative monologue is paired with the images of last year we constantly reappraise what is…