Marcelle Penha

Marcelle Penha

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  • Adolescence

    ★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★½

  • ThamePo - Heart That Skips A Beat

    ★½

  • The Remains of the Day

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★½

    Not a bad movie. Robert Pattinson was an absolute blast, as always. The mix of innocence—and why not, a touch of dim-wittedness—in his character carried the film. It actually reminded me of Flowers for Algernon, which is a fantastic sci-fi reference.

    The use of stereotypes was fine. I usually don’t like this kind of approach, but since I had no spoilers, I genuinely couldn’t predict where the movie would take me. I had a feeling it would play with doubles…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

    Probably the first cinematic portrayal of a musician that truly became a great film—at least to my taste. Instead of following the typical childhood-to-old-age narrative, the writers carefully selected key moments from Bob Dylan’s life. Their choices were so precise that these glimpses alone captured his genius without excessive explanation or dialogue. And what about Timothée Chalamet? He deserved an Oscar, to say the least.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★½

    The film starts off well (the opening sequence is actually quite good—the feeling of suffocation on the ship leading up to the sight of the Statue of Liberty), but it gets worse over the course of its excessively long three hours. Perhaps its greatest achievement was making Lászlo Tóth feel real—I had to look him up after leaving the theater. However, the essentialism of the main character was not captured at all in the film.

    The movie leaves several loose…

  • My Sunshine

    My Sunshine

    ★★★★★

    This movie encapsulates everything great about Japanese cinema—it feels like a perfectly edited text, with every unnecessary detail carefully removed. A beautiful way to express emotions, relying on subtlety rather than words. And the cinematography is simply stunning. That light streaming through the windows of the ice-skating rink—it felt like an illusion destined to disappear with the arrival of summer. And in the end, it melted away.

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