Favorite films

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  Apocalisse 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 May 2019 2

  67. Trento Film Festival

  A bunch of society's rejects (drug addicts, AIDS and mental institutions' patients, prisoners, homeless people) are asked to read or recite passages of the Book of Revelation. You're not ready for this, no one is. In framing these people, Dal Bosco (recently passed away) has the uncompromising and radical gaze of Pasolini and Brakhage, the camera slowly and obsessively swinging left and right, again and again, while through their mouths God himself is unleashing his rage…

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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Apr 2019 3

  I decided to try out a review in chapters for this second viewing of The Return, in which I'll update this entry as I watch the show's Parts. Each update will include some thoughts/sensations about the Part I just watched and will probably discuss some plot points, so I'm afraid there are gonna be spoilers (although I doubt that there are that many people who haven't watched this yet).

  I have the feeling that this second time will be much…

Recent reviews

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  Eraserhead 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Jan 2025

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  The Royal Hotel 2023

  ★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2024

  A good film almost ruined by a pointless ending. The need for catharsis can be very dangerous.

Popular reviews

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  The Smell of Burning Ants 1994

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Nov 2017

  "No one ever tells him what to be, only what not to be; boys become boys, in large part, by not being girls. [...] Later, he will be with women, and feel what he has been robbed of."

  The creation of the male gender (there's a conflation in the film between sex and gender, its discourse tackling the traditional/patriarchal production of gender roles) is for once seen as a result of negative repression and the traumas provoked by the always-already…

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  Cadaver 2020

  ★★ Watched 09 Nov 2020

  A nuclear holocaust only to justify a bunch of people accepting an invite to dine in a theatre is a bit too much but OK.