Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Discarnates 1988

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Apr 2023

  Vanishing into a realm of delicately potent nostalgia. Time slipping from your grasp, moments lingering and fading. Desolate figments of the imagination connecting with our deepest longings. Blurred visions enveloped in endearment and melancholy unravel seamless emotion and allow you travel to a place where we know we are loved. An extraordinary ghost story, masterful from Obayashi.

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  A Day Off 1968

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Apr 2023

  Monotones caressed from a palette drench the visual frame and seep through the bleakly depressing atmosphere. Days merging into each other, drowning the misery further. Shadows form amongst the vacant streets and trail off into an abyss. A Day off perfectly encapsulates the empty existence endured during late 60s Korea. Beautiful visuals, raw performances and a magnificent score that mirrors the relentless pattern they find them selves trapped in. That montage near the ending was executed wonderfully too, loved it. The fact this was banned for 37 years speaks volumes...

Popular reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Dec 2022

  My word, that was magnificent. Simultaneously tender and overwhelmingly visceral. Moving images that fade in and out are overlaid with the fondness and nostalgia associated with the innocence of childhood. They also signify something else, something Sophie can't quite piece together. The VHS footage footage causes a twinge in your heart, it provides an array of emotions that consume you. Vibrant and full of life visuals, wonderful attention to detail and genuine performances that feel very passionate. Paul Mescal and…

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  Edvard Munch 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Dec 2022

  Immensely layered and intriguing biopic that masterfully explores Munch's torment, the trials and tribulations he endured to create art and his eventual descent into hell. A spectator to his own sensitive, gloomy and self-isolated existence in the search for a unique yet distinguished style. A slave to anxiety and alienation. His work is filled with agony, aimless desires and the misery of failed relationships. An individual who has suffered a great ordeal of personal trauma from family and peers reflects…