Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  It's true that if you leave you lose things, but you also gain things, too.

  Promised myself I’d only watch this one again when I felt emotionally stable and prepared. This time, though, it didn’t hurt as much as the first time. Now, I think, the story got stuck in a very different way. Although I still feel for Hae Sung, and the ‘what ifs’ of his former/hypothetic relationship with Nora/Na Young that have been building up for decades, I…

• 

  Presença de Anita 2001

  Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  Ne me quitte pas. Don’t leave me. No me dejes.

Popular reviews

• 

  I Origins 2014

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Jul 2022

  *sigh*

  The first time I watched this film, I didn’t know how to cope afterwards. I remember, vividly, this empty space… this pit in my stomach that lasted, probably, a week or even more so. The salty tears and this tender, weird feeling of getting to know something so, very secret. 

  This piece of everlasting, otherworldly wisdom. 

  I came across it by recommendation of my ex, the first girl I ever loved. I didn’t know how much I loved her…

• 

  Meet Joe Black 1998

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Feb 2025

  I can dislike Brad as much as I want for everything he has done as a person, but I cannot deny that the mf is good looking and a charmer in this one. Him as death???? Brilliant. The peanut butter/sex comparison always makes me laugh in a very endearing way. The end gets me emotional, but it has its beauty. Claire Forlani has to be one of the FINEST LOOKING WOMEN I’ve ever seen. Father-daughters bond done right.