retrocinema

retrocinema

giving my opinion on the seventh art as if I knew.

Favorite films

  • La Haine
  • Alien
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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  • Alien
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Come and See
  • Interstellar

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  • Persona

    Persona

    ★★★★★

    Ingmar Bergman is one of the best directors in history and in this film he proves it. It is impressive how deep a film can be made with just the relationship between two women with different personalities and dreams, but intertwined by the same society. Dark, macabre, painful shots, but with unmatched technical excellence, this 1 hour and 20 minute film seems to me to be one of the best in history.

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    ★★★★★

    Wow, those apparently superficial shots that deep down evoke audiovisual genius, that atmosphere, that silence, those special effects, I really can't understand how a production of this stature could have been created in 1968. The message is equally impressive, how Kubrick tries to give a metaphorical meaning to our own evolution, perfectly linking the entire film so that even after millions of years, it continues to make sense, while at the same time enclosing Nietzsche's philosophy about "perfect man" leaving…

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