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Favorite films

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Mary and Max
  • Visible Mending
  • Marona's Fantastic Tale

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  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    ★★★★★

  • Marona's Fantastic Tale

    ★★★★½

  • Visible Mending

    ★★★★★

  • Past Lives

    ★★★★

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  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    ★★★★★

    "like a movie, but nobody has any lines, and nobody even knows what it is about while they're making it" - little marcel describing what a documentary is.

    such a precious pov in meandering through the wacky joys and unexpected lows of family life.... the imaginative inventions and quips of nana connie and marcel helped all the more with being present with the film, and with immersing in learning along with them in embracing sticky, accidental messes and growing in community through different seasons ♡

  • Marona's Fantastic Tale

    Marona's Fantastic Tale

    ★★★★½

    Beautiful, vibrant film about a little doggo's journey through big feelings on love and loss, devotion and abandonment, life and death. The technicalities and narratives gelled so well - with the ending smoothly built into the beginning, again and again.

    Am also just in awe of the art direction of the film... It masterfully communicated distinct personalities and atmospheres through sensitive uses of colour, lines, patterns, movement, perspectives. Even though it's narrated in a language foreign to me and my…

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  • Mary and Max

    Mary and Max

    ★★★★★

    I first watched Mary and Max 9 years ago and it still remains one of my most deeply treasured films. 2013 was a year of deep isolation and despair for myself but it was also the year where my friendship with a kindred pal solidified.

    Elliot phenomenally depicts the gnawing sense of loneliness and being an ungainly outsider through the absurd characterisations of Mary and Max. What struck a deeper chord within was watching the healing power of a serendipitous…

  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★

    Have been anticipating this film for a few months... coupled with the yearning backing track of Cat Power's Stay and snippets of the film popping up here and there on my social media feed, I expected a direction of bittersweet nostalgia in Past Lives.

    But, I felt it was far from that. Instead, Celine Song's direction was refreshing and grounded. It would've been the easier path to stir the emotions of the audience through sentimentality. Song, however, took the path…

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