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Favorite films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Showgirls
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Babylon

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  • Interview with the Vampire

    ★★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★½

  • Family Pack

    ★★½

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover

    ★★★½

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  • Spirited Away

    Spirited Away

    ★★★★★

    It’s such a wonderful and dreadful realisation that a movie has watched you grow up. 

    When I was 3, it saw me cry and I tried searching for magical pathways that could have let me somewhere right for me.

    I’ve seen it several times in many years and looked for something different while being relentlessly hit by the importance of love, resilience and humility counteracting all those who want to go down

    This time, a friend and I decided to…

  • The Beast

    The Beast

    ★★★★★

    At first I hesitated to say anything about this movie, because the experience of it felt so intimate. 

    All things considered, Bertrand Bonello is, to me, the most accomplished filmmaker in France, and one of the best in the world, ever since seeing his Nocturama (2016). I had fallen completely subdued by it. Unfortunately since then he hasn’t been a favourite of the producers, who have not their priorities set very straight.

    This movie is a blend of genres and…

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  • The Animal Kingdom

    The Animal Kingdom

    ★★★★★

    J’ai entendu en sortant de la séance quelqu’un dire “C’est Avatar en moins beau.”, si vous pensez pouvoir comparer la portée des deux films, je vous plains sincèrement.

    Enfin le cinéma français ose produire un film grandiose, à portée philosophique, avec un réel travail cinématographique.
    Une ode à la nature et au vivant.

  • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

    Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

    ½

    I’ve never left in the middle of a movie, and I never wished so hard I had.

    I am so angry at this movie for being absolutely pseudo-intellectual wanking that I couldn’t linger on what this movie is constructed upon.

    Just know that the story goes nowhere, the shots last too long, it’s not even beautiful, and nothing worth hearing is said

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