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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  First part: plz get me out of here I really want to die
  Second part: uuuuuh nice
  finale: this is really nice!!! :O

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  Cinema Paradiso 1988

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  The recipe is simple:
  make the sad scenes sad
  make the nostalgic scenes nostalgic
  most italian love story ever in rural sicilian city:

  big tears in the end

  Do not fear the long drawn-out first part, it is just fuel to make the second part feel unimaginably nostalgic. The only problem with this film is the unnecessary out-of-nowhere italian caricatures that want to be funny but aren't.

  
  
  

  (also this is pitollo origin story)

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025 3

  This is a film designed to make you sad (and since I felt sad after watching it I guess it worked). However it also felt like a giant edging session for the expected tearjerking ending. I like films with unexplained details to fill in and wonder about, but only if I really care about the protagonists; here everything seems to be manufactured to maximize the sadness of the spectator. It felt like a sad story about a friend of a friend of a friend narrated so that every scene tells you just enough to keep you wanting more, but never actually develops a real plot.

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★ Watched 17 Jan 2024

  This movie really tries hard to compensate its shallowness with upsetting and shocking scenes that just made me laugh for how absurd they were. I didn’t really care about anybody and the ending is ridiculous, like a school’s project due tomorrow that you hastily finish before class.

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