Alejandro Moncrieff

Alejandro Moncrieff

Escribiente de los jardines.
Scribe of the gardens.

Favorite films

  • The Scent of Green Papaya
  • The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
  • Being There
  • Holy Motors

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  • Licorice Pizza

    ★★★★½

  • Paddington in Peru

    ★★★★

  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★★★

  • Bridget Jones's Baby

    ★★★

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  • Kaito Ruby

    Kaito Ruby

    ★★★★

    An extremely stylized and breezy trailblazer of a film jam-packed with loads of fun, cinematic sophistication and charm. A Humphrey Bogart certified romance for clumsy burglars and caviar enthusiasts. Misbehavior as an excuse for unfaltering wackiness. It's a charmer, for sure.
    Inventive, exciting, delightful and fascinating in every sense. If there ever was a mischievous camera, don't look elsewhere, it's right here. We're taken hostages and bamboozled by its aesthetic schemes. The camera is the real crook in this film:…

  • Enchanted April

    Enchanted April

    ★★★★

    Mesmerizing. A 20th century transfixation on women, flowers and gardens. There's nothing I appreciate more than that, and also, nothing more cinematic, to be honest.
    A first-class pallet of stunning vistas, braided hair and women that grow dozy. A chronicle on the brevity of sunbathing and other kinds of delighting phenomena. A Charleston for sudden escapades and italian landscaping, for laying in the grass, or elsewhere. It has a lyrical quirkiness that it's both mellow and offbeat, an unusual thing…

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  • Living Out Loud

    Living Out Loud

    ★★★★★

    This film is a vocal jazz standard on itself. An elegant understated gem. This kind of film is truly a rarity that one could and should cherish forever. It's quite sophisticated. The cast is just phenomenal in every kind of sense. The opening sequence with Queen Latifah singing "Lush Life" is mesmerizing. Also, I could watch Holly Hunter eat an hamburguer for an entire hour. She's just spectacular, she's such a wonder. An electrifying performance. She shines in every scene.…

  • Am I OK?

    Am I OK?

    ★★★

    Ladies and gentlemen, and all creatures alike, I present to you, the Sonoya Mizuno queendom.

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