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raphaella_z

Favorite films

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • Coda
  • Donkey Skin
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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  • Nosferatu

    ★★★

  • Princess Mononoke

    ★★★★★

  • The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★

  • Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★

    Dafoe carried

  • The House

    The House

    ★★★½

    I expected more dramatic plot turns after the first chapter, and felt like my predictions in the second two were more interesting than what ended up happening. However the animation and character/set work was impeccable, and i enjoyed the way the movie depicted obsession and desperation playing out in different ways. The first family was completely consumed by the house in a dark and hopeless way, whereas the contractor in the second chapter seemed almost to be freed from his…

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  • 10/65: Self-Mutilation

    10/65: Self-Mutilation

    ★★★★★

    It’s like watching someone who can’t remember what it’s like to be human

  • The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    ★★★★½

    In the beautiful dream, everything is immediate, everything is infinite. The paintings are like the way one remembers the past, shifting through faces and colors.

    Petrov is a master at capturing light as a moving, breathing thing—- as well as introducing shadow as corruption, as humanity grows darker.

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