Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Fallen Leaves 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 24 Jun 2024

  Saw this last week, thought it was pretty charming, didn't dwell too much on it at first. Over the next few days, it felt like the more I sat with the film, the more it stuck with me. After that I really wanted to rewatch it before it left cinemas.

  I'm so endeared by everything about this film. Kaurismaki depicts drudgery and solitude in such an understated yet affecting way. 'Humanistic' is the word I most often hear in other…

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  Anatomy of a Fall 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 27 Jun 2024

  'My job is to cover the tracks, so that fiction destroys reality.'

  I have some half-baked thoughts on Anatomy, and what it has to say about the relationship/s between law, violence and literature:

  I don't know much about the law and literature movement (my university never offers any remotely interesting units apparently <3) but from what little I know of it, Anatomy of a Fall is screaming for L&L treatment. One, courtrooms are sites of violence as much as (if…

Recent reviews

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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  The first two stories were good, didn't really resonate enough with me to leave a deeper impression on me though maybe I'd find more to enjoy in them on rewatch. But that third story!! Kinda the perfect short film. Really special. I love you mr hamaguchi :-))

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  Asako I & II 2018

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Asako I & II to Suzhou River: I have that shirt too kinda

  holyfuckjdfkjksf i didn't read up on this one beforehand and i thought it was going to be a cutesy feel good romance. WRONGG bitch I've never been so devastated by a movie before!!! i'm actually winded what the fuck what the fuckkkkk. the last half hour!!!!!!!!!!!!! ryusuke hamaguchi i love you and i fucking hate you!!!!!!!

Popular reviews

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  Dog Day Afternoon 1975

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  This movie was just "come outside nobody's gonna jump you" 300 times over. When Al Pacino said "I like getting kissed when I'm being fucked" like ok lol let's test that hypothesis then 🫦🫦🫦🫦

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  And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool. 2017

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Laughing 'til our ribs get tough