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  The Walker 2007

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Schrader made several films where the detective plot appears and then becomes insignificant in the goal of revealing a character, so interesting to see an example of a film where the balance is reversed. feels more conventional

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  Harper 1966

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  the transitional cultural period in hollywood was not the best for noir

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  Anora 2024

  Watched 23 Dec 2024

  with everything right about the film, one detail really ruins it: how anora, with her professional cynicism, couldn't see Ivan for what he was? didn't she meet rich mama's boys before? we understand everything about him from second one, why doesn't she? same with Igor

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  Rosetta 1999

  Watched 31 Jan 2025

  the crucial question for me was this one: what sets apart this beautiful social yet existentialist film from cheap poverty porn that it inspired in the following years?

  it seems to me that it is the inherit dignity that titular character possess. she's not driven by poverty, but by her pride. she disagrees with her fate and it elevates her otherwise trivial search for work to some spiritual level

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