LeoOrtega

LeoOrtega

Favorite films

  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

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  • Johnny English

  • Black Girl

    ★★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • The Conversation

    ★★★★½

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★

    The pope’s gone woke!

  • The Conversation

    The Conversation

    ★★★★½

    Really crept up on me. I was so lost in the beginning I won’t lie. It was slow. But that ending is haunting me…

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★½

    Megalopolis if it was somehow even worse and had 10 minutes of Zionist propaganda. Not even really about architecture which made me sad. Not impressed by the gotcha moment in the epilogue. Aside from that, why add so much meaningless nonsense? Why does the movie  introduce so many things which it does not seem interested in letting us derive any meaning from?

  • Good Morning, Night

    Good Morning, Night

    ★★★★½

    Flawed politically, but couldn't that be said about all the people in this movie?

    It deals with my favorite political subject, crises internal to socialism. What errors were made and how are they dealt with? The whole Brigate Rosse movement was a reaction to the stagnation of The Italian Communist Party, but this movie is really about a crisis within that reaction. And there's so many layers. Bellocchio made the right move to focus on the human aspect and not…

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