LourencoVaz

LourencoVaz

Favorite films

  • Drive
  • City Lights
  • Oldboy
  • The Road to El Dorado

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  • Marriage Story

    ★★★★½

  • Climax

    ★★★

  • Alice

    ★★★★

  • First Man

    ★★★★

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  • Marriage Story

    Marriage Story

    ★★★★½

    Best Woody Allen film in ages!

  • Climax

    Climax

    ★★★

    And me thinking I knew all about crazy parties...

    CLIMAX is the latest film of the controversial director Gaspar Noe and, to be honest, this was one of my most antecipated films of the last year.

    That said, the film was quite disappointing. Despite the brilliant beginning - it manages to stroll from an intriguing establishing shot, to a splendid introduction of the characters without giving away too much information and then to the best 20 minutes of Noe's career:…

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  • The Mist

    The Mist

    ★★★★

    "Men, without any natural predators, becames his own wolf" - Thomas Hobbes, XVII

    THE MIST is the third film directed by Frank Darabont and based on a Stephen King's book, and it's probably my favourite (embrace ourselfs hate is coming), I liked Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile, but this movie hits you in a completely differnt way...

    This is not the typical "locked in a house because there are monsters outside movie" like Feast or others... This is a movie…

  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    ★★★★

    I think that Birdman's cinematography is similar to that huge sand scultures: they are both beautiful, impressive, but... pratically useless. The one shot thing it's really impressive, I can't imagine how many time Lubezki, Inarritu, all the actors and the rest of the crew had to practise and repractise to achieve it, because it takes an amazing directing to direct actors and the rest of the crew, the actors need to be super professional, and you need a perfect man…