LevitatingLeaf

LevitatingLeaf

Favorite films

  • L'Argent
  • Persona
  • Mirror
  • Citizen Kane

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  • Güeros

    ★★★

  • Lost Highway

    ★★★★

  • Boyz n the Hood

  • Cold War

    ★★

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  • The Room Next Door

    The Room Next Door

    To the death so feared herein is Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door succumbed, being so lifeless, unnatural, mechanical, and much like death, wasting with frightful predictability.

    Its action concerns Martha, a retired war reporter, undergoing experimental treatment for cancer leading to an afflicting failure. From her close friend Ingrid, a novelist terrified of death, lately met after a long separation, she requests a favour, merely of staying in a room next door, just so she would not be alone, when…

  • Dahomey

    Dahomey

    A documentary derives its essential effect through its filmic depiction of that purest effecter of emotion, the naked truth; hence, the more this truth is coloured by unsatisfactory directorial interpretation and artifice, the more is its potency lost to banality. Mati Diop’s Dahomey is so weakened by its imperfect balance between an impartial portrayal of events and an artistic yet artificially distorting expression of Diop’s view on the subject.

    The action of Dahomey is France’s restitution of twenty-six royal treasures…

  • L'Argent

    L'Argent

    All the truly great achievements in the cinematographic art must at the deepest level find their enduring triumph through its peculiarity of expression unrepresented by the other arts. Of the few directors who appreciated the weighty consequences of this tenet, none has in response so perfectly realized a preformulated ideal of pure cinema in his practice as has Bresson in this his ultimate masterpiece.

    Tolstoy’s The Forged Coupon set in modern France, L’Argent follows a counterfeit banknote passed from hand…

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