Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  Watched 22 Jul 2023

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

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  Dheepan 2015

  ★★★★½ Watched 31 Mar 2022

  “I’m not an immigrant. I’m a refugee, and I live with a refugee mindset. I live thinking of my motherland and when I can get back there, so I’ve engaged very little with French culture and French people.”

  — Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Interview on Dheepan, February 2017, Paris

  [This quote reminded me of a great paper I read by Hassina Benchelabi about Maghrebi women displaced to Brussels, and their explicit underuse of public space (restaurants, nightclubs) as voluntary defensive behaviour, as…

Popular reviews

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  Pierrot le Fou 1965

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jul 2019

  Blue and red, sky and sea, male and female. Marianne and the fool circle around the polarities of life — money and freedom, love and annoyance, life and death.

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  Mon Oncle 1958

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Sep 2019

  A house with eyes and a mouth. Tati depicts the inconveniences of both suburban and city life. Humility transpires whether we choose to (quite literally) follow the path that has been laid out for us or step in everybody’s way. 

  For me, this movie clearly outlines the differences between modernism in art versus architecture. Where Sullivan’s “form follows function” comes to die in hilarious, nightmarish truth.