Mico Aquino

Mico Aquino

Aspiring composer and pianist of classical and experimental music.

Favorite films

  • A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
  • Come and See
  • Meshes of the Afternoon
  • Roman Holiday

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  • Dirkie

    ★★★½

  • The Quiet Girl

    ★★★★

  • Knock on Any Door

    ★★★★

  • Dead on Time

    ★★★½

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  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    ★★★★

    Marlene's facial expressions are everything. She utters not a word, and yet the subtle frustration she holds therein is palpable.

  • The Matchbreaker

    The Matchbreaker

    ★★★

    I'll be honest: I only watched this film because of Christina Grimmie. I extremely admire her as a person, and her sudden, tragic death almost 9 years ago could have been prevented. Were she not in this movie, there's a massive chance that:

    a) I would have missed the film,
    b) nor would have heard about it...
    c) nor would have been interested with it.

    Most people knew and heard about the film because of her. Most people watched the…

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  • Artificial Light

    Artificial Light

    ★★★★½

    This 23-minute phantasmagorical film is akin to seeing the world in many different ways. It repeats, and now we see it as a variation of the original, with different techniques, colors, and we see another after the other—again and again—until what the subjects are doing in the repeating clip is somehow engraved in our minds, despite the dissimilitude with each repetition. A great example of this is the alternating open and close movement of Rosemarie Castoro's hand in the film,…