Cinephile

Cinephile

Cinephile since memory began, with a mind steeped in celluloid, forever yearning to turn whispers of stories into light and frame.

Favorite films

  • Past Lives
  • Aftersun
  • The Worst Person in the World
  • Waves

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  • Wings of Desire

    ★★★★★

  • The Room Next Door

    ★★★½

  • Cleaner

    ★★

  • Venom: The Last Dance

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  • Wings of Desire

    Wings of Desire

    ★★★★★

    “I couldn’t say who I am. I don’t have the slightest idea. I have no roots, no story, no country, and I like it that way. I’m here. I’m free. I can imagine anything. Everything’s possible.”

    What makes angels different from humans? And what makes us human? Is it love? Is it hate? Is it desire?

    This film shows glimpses of rhythms of human life, but through the eyes of angels. The smallest, moments we take for granted, they observe…

  • Memoir of a Snail

    Memoir of a Snail

    ★★★★½

    “Life can only be understood backwards, but we have to live it forwards.”

    I found myself wondering: why a snail? Why that particular creature? Then I learned that “Snails can’t move backwards. The muscles in their foot can only wave in one direction.”

    It took this animated film to make me realize that sometimes we should be like snails focusing on the path ahead rather than the trail we leave behind. Often we cling to the past, even when we…

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★

    As someone who adored the first one, it genuinely stings when someone asks me, “What did you think of the second one?” I almost want to keep my disappointment private, like a secret shame. I had so much hope for it, so much anticipation—I was ready to say I loved it. But instead, I spent most of the movie hiding my face, cringing, knowing there wasn’t a single moment that could salvage it for me. That final scene, the one…

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

    “Does evil come from within us, or from beyond?”

    Sadly I was the only one in the theater who didn’t laugh or made a nasty joke.

    Despite the numerous Nosferatu and Dracula films produced over the years, this film offers something new by focusing on a woman as the protagonist in the Victorian era. Victorian society is often known as a time of politeness and strict social norms, particularly for women, who were expected to be faithful, unquestioning wives and…