Paola

Paola

Favorite films

  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • Central Station
  • Django Unchained
  • The Working Class Goes to Heaven

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  • The Zone of Interest

    ★★★½

  • Poor Things

    ★★½

  • The Substance

    ★★

  • Adolescence

    ★★★★

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  • A Teacher

    A Teacher

    ★★½

    Brutal. The last three episodes are powerfully sad and redemptive. I felt very uncomfortable with the scenes of the teacher's grooming being transformed into a young adult romance... But I understand that it was part of a script that wanted to deliver, at the end of very short episodes, the cinematic force of the only possible conclusion: high school students are teenagers, damn it! Don't groom minors! It's not just an abuse of power, but pedophilia... Many times I wanted…

  • Children of Men

    Children of Men

    ★★★★

    An excellent dystopia, questionable only in the title... In a catastrophic future in which all women have lost the biological capacity to bear children, there is a single exception among them. This woman is capable of enduring the dilemmas of war to generate and keep alive the only baby on Earth. But they preferred (in a Christian allusion, I don't know) to put the title "Children of Men". Even though "men" doesn't necessarily indicate "human male", the choice still seems…

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