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  My Favourite Cake 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

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

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  Fallen Leaves 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 20 Jan 2025

  "Ведь если в башне поебень, то что ебень, что не ебень"

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  Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom 2015

  ★★ Watched 29 Jan 2021 2

  I can say there is a great story-telling here. The thing it gives is quite intense and hard to digest. The film gives the feeling of protesters which were rightfully angry towards berkuts which were cruelly beating people to death and shooting. It was more like a 21st century civil war than a revolt. However there is a big BUT here. Euromaidan started as struggle for joining EU for sure and it stayed as one of the main discourses during…

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  The Square 2017

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 20 Apr 2020

  "The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations." Do we?

  It's a remarkable story about conversion of insignificant to significant and the vice versa. So brilliant that how it tactly connects class struggle to contemporary art discussions about 'whether it's art depending on the venue or not". Self-extermination of the elite with highly sensitive sense of humor. Wonderful movie, thanks Östlund.

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