leoykenzo

leoykenzo

Favorite films

  • Under the Tuscan Sun
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • And Then We Danced
  • A Real Pain

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  • Shelter

    ★★★

  • Fire Island

    ★★★★

  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★★

  • God's Own Country

    ★★★★

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★½

    Acho que preciso rever para apreciar.

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★

    Challengers does well in showcasing some tennis realness for those engaged with the sport. 
    You can see the director tried for the disgusting and opted for a weirdness hoping to make it unique. It kind of worked, although it didn’t make it a masterpiece.
    Undoubtedly, it has some good points, but at the end are the characters really that complex or just flatly written/explored?
    It just didn’t fulfill all of its potential.

  • A Quiet Place: Day One

    A Quiet Place: Day One

    ★★★½

    Simple, elegant and beautiful! The film portrays the amount of listening, understanding, one can achieve through silence.

    A shout out to the directors for not overdoing it, but rather trusting the basic human (and feline, not to forget the real star here) connection nicely constructed by the characters to be, as it should, the centre of this (almost) silent picture. 

    It’s truly beautiful in a uncomplicated way to understand difference, especially when priorities could be so objectively obvious for some,…

  • Close

    Close

    ★★★★½

    Close unveils how harsh can it be to become aware, especially for those who surround you.


    At a very discernible moment, Léo quite literally enters adolescence. He’s now, as a mark of those who are no longer children, bothered by how he’s perceived and instantly desiring to control his image at the expense of his rarely sweet life. 


    Dhont and Tijssens brilliantly display how much can be said without words when you truly know someone, and yet, how the state…

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