Mandy Paterson

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Favorite films

  • The Fly
  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • Vagabond
  • The Wold-Shadow

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  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    ★★★½

  • Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

    ★★★½

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock

    ★★★½

  • Arsenic and Old Lace

    ★★★

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  • Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

    Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

    ★★★★

    In the end, no one could match his freak

  • Vagabond

    Vagabond

    ★★★★★

    She came from the sea

    The path of no return might never reveal its true nature, but the decay that comes along fringes the drifter on the shores of their own doubts. Mona's unstoppable stroll towards ultimate emancipation is one bound to end in annihilation. Her choices might be hers, but her limits are born out of the torment of a life that could never be her own. To do things without reasons is not to be aimless. Varda moulds…

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  • The Royal Tenenbaums

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    ★★★½

    Rip Gene, you were a true royal

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    ★★★½

    Ethereal oblivion problematically basking in feminine hysteria

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  • The Girl Chewing Gum

    The Girl Chewing Gum

    ★★★★½

    We all fantasize about being gods of small worlds, our small world. The camera allows just this. Yet, between the tool of control it is and its product – the image – intent and effects differ. The positionality of the former contravenes that of the latter: if the camera goes up, the image moves down; if the camera moves to follow its subject, the subject remains at its centre. The camera disarms the movements of the life it films, and…

  • All of Us Strangers

    All of Us Strangers

    ★★★★½

    Petite Maman for gays