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Favorite films

  • Strange Days
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Sombre
  • Day of the Outlaw

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  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

    ★★★★★

  • Bridget Jones's Baby

  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

  • Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

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  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★★

    as with late chaplin, clint’s empathetic direction spreads a bunch of intrusive thoughts to disturb your analysis, using psychological factors and audience perception to unfold and funnel it all. the stark reality of morality is laid bare, revealing the principles and experiences that guide a person's judgments, and the torment that can linger long after your actions. emotional barriers in a system that impedes critical reasoning, making it impossible for a person to connect with others (lacking in complexity), and…

  • The Beast

    The Beast

    ★★★★½

    - i’m sorry about what i said earlier… i was afraid.
    - what were you afraid of ?
    - i don’t really know. actually, i’ve spent my whole life thinking about the most horrible things, so after awhile… you get scared.

    bonello’s style is the direct lineage of all those fantasy/gothic films from the late 40s and early 50s. i am sure that from most people’s eyes and if they weren’t fictional, his characters would seem devoid of all emotions... but…

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  • The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans

    ★★★★★

    as a child who had to deal with a toxic home environment, there was a urge to deep into my brain in order to find ways to escape reality. the place that should be a refuse when you’re a child & that will soon become the tapestry of who you wanna become, makes you endure instead of living. i know what it is to be the mature kid of the fam, the creative one, the one who had to drop school,…

  • Annette

    Annette

    this has sunk my brain into a void, a wacko energy that made me experience it all in an artistic way. i wanted some spectacle, all i got was a demented soap opera, and i am not disappointed. it feels too long, loses intensity once Marion leaves the screen, and the dialogues can feel a bit off from time to time, but that’s clearly because Carax didn’t adjust the extraness of it. it is not much about hearing the music,…