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“How often we ask for genuine experience when all we really want is emotion.”

Favorite films

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Light Sleeper 1992

Watched 18 Mar 2025

One could pity Schrader’s transparency about his cinematic influences and the experiences that fuel his creative output because it simply leaves him too exposed to repetitive criticisms, but in my case it also leaves me throwing him repetitive praises. The Pickpocket ending consistently works in his films not because he tries to earn it, as if the Bresson reference is something he should live up to, I don’t even feel like one could call it copying. Rather than writing a…
Marie Antoinette 2006

Watched 16 Mar 2025

Atrocious soundtrack. It’s a dangerous game to let your film lean on iconic songs to hit certain emotional beats, but massacring the 5 minute opening track of one of the greatest albums of all time to fit into a 40 second scene is an abuse, and it doesn’t help how poorly they chopped the intro with the outro. Outside of what they did to Plainsong, the scene with What Ever Happened, yet another iconic intro track to another era defining…

Blonde 2022

★★★★★ Watched 04 Oct 2022 2

It’s a shame the conversation around this film has gone the way it has, because I really was losing interest in watching it. It is hard to describe this picture’s beauty when I know that a negative reaction is expected and even probably asked for. However, what happened between Andrew Dominik, Ana De Amas, Nick Cave, and Warren Ellis, is true magic.
Blonde is a devastating and often surrealist flowing of loose narrative, that shifts it’s dreaminess between fantasy and…
Poor Things 2023

★★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2023 2

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.