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Past Lives 2023
Past Lives is Celine Songs first full length film I believe and it is just a beautiful film in every aspect.
The film feels minimalistic at times, emotions are conveyed just as well through comfortable and uncomfortable silences as words, a panoramic shot of a skyline showcases the distances between characters, a staircase the different paths they take. Every word is worth 10, every silence a hundred, every picture a thousand. Celine Song does so much with so little. You…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
To keep this brief I want to focus on 2 things. The soundtrack, and Timothee Chalamet.
The soundtrack: it is the same… but different. Gone are the blaring bagpipes of House Atreides, and Loire Cotlers iconic voice, the soundtrack of a far off, mysterious, inhospitable, ancient land is no longer front and centre, and when she does appear she is far softer and intimate. This mirrors the rest of the soundtrack which for large parts focuses on Paul and Chanis…
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Violet Evergarden: The Day You Will Understand "Love" Will Surely Come 2018
On its own as a “special” I would give this a 4 or maybe a 4.5 at a push. It can be a bit jarring to watch this as the final episode of the season and be thrown back into Violets character early on in her journey/ story. However when this is viewed in chronological order between episodes 4 and 5 of the main season, it provides so much more character building and context to Violets character, both in the…
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Violet Evergarden 2018
My first ever review, it took something big for me to do one. I was on the fence as to whether to give this a 4.5 or a 5. It may be hypocritical of me to say this show isn’t perfect and then give it a 5 but oh well.
There are moments that do feel slightly filled/ strung out, and the excellent subject matter means that I feel the show is at its weakest when it leans into its…
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