J P

J P

I love the world of cinema. The films I enjoy the most are the one's that push the boundary in what they are trying to accomplish.

Favorite films

  • Rashomon
  • Daisies
  • Waking Life
  • Citizen Kane

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  • Fighter in the Wind

    ★★★

  • Blade Runner 2049

    ★★★★

  • Death Note

  • Dunkirk

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  • El Sur

    El Sur

    ★★★★½

    “They told me my father predicted that I would be a girl. It is the first thing about him that comes to my mind, a vivid image that in reality, I had only invented.”
    Our perceptions in life come from a balance of our willingness to break free from illusion and how much reality we are able to hand. Sometimes, the illusions are broken for us, which causes us to come to terms with the present or, choose (or fail…

  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

    ★★★★★

    Mr. Lazarescu: Doctor my head hurts
    ER Doctor: Good, it means you have one.

    A life determined by coincidence, random dissociated events, the moral judgment of others, and a lack of a sense of agency is the story of the "Death of Mr. Lazarescu" (2005) directed by Cristi Puiu. In the film Mr. Lazarescu, eventually by means of an ambulance, is shuttled from hospital to hospital in order to treat his symptoms of severe head pain, nausea, and pain in…

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  • I Can't Sleep

    I Can't Sleep

    ★★★★½

    "My brother's a stranger to me, just like you."

    Policemen in a helicopter laugh at the world below them. A beautiful Lithuanian Russian aspiring actress (Katerina Golubeva) seeks out to make Paris her knew home despite a lack of fluency in French. A father (Alex Descas) and mother (Béatrice Dalle) of a young boy are separated, and the father wants to take the boy back to his native Martinique. The wife of the couple next door cries at night. An…

  • White Material

    White Material

    ★★★★★

    "Extreme blondness brings back luck. It cries out to be pillaged. (Pause) Blue eyes are troublesome. This is his country. He was born here. But it doesn't like him." - The Mayor

    A French, white, wife, Maria Vial, of a coffee plantation owner is trying to keep her place running despite the civil war raging around her. No one wants her there. The French call out from a helicopter for her to evacuate. The government soldiers blame her for the…