Arindam Sarkar

Arindam Sarkar

PhD student & a closeted cinephile.

Favorite films

  • Pather Panchali
  • The Song of Sparrows
  • Naked
  • The Tree of Life

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  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • The Promised Land

    ★★★★

  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★

  • Civil War

    ★★½

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★

    Jesse’s a gem of a director to have crafted a film with such finesse. The shots featuring the hollow, horrid colonies of Poland spoke volumes, despite hidden under some great piano classics for the score. The dialogues complimented the cast and the characters actually felt fresh for once, given that the world has had enough of stories featuring rejuvenating trips. Although there wasn’t a single moment of violence and terror that holocaust bestowed upon the people of Jewish heritage, there…

  • The Promised Land

    The Promised Land

    ★★★★

    The film is a historical fiction that features a cold yet thrilling romance drama through some very well-written characters, all of which were done justice by their actors. A barren infertile heath could be turned into a potato farm through hardcore labor laced with persistence, resilience and love…however “life rarely turns out the way you imagine it to be”, so you might not always reap what you sow.

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  • Society of the Snow

    Society of the Snow

    ★★★★

    The film evokes the true existentialist spirits of life and the living, through a metaphysical commentary done by the dead.

    A place so grim, neither the winds feel alive nor the fire comes to life. On a land so stale lived the faces so pale, neither the sun looked dry nor the eyes that cry- yet inhabited by the sheer-willed hearts, a society arose in snow from beneath a graveyard. A society of wills and souls, wherein one’s taxes are…

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