Robin van Ommen

Robin van Ommen

Writer / Scenario

“I carried a watermelon!”
- Baby (not in the corner)

Favorite films

  • Chungking Express
  • Paris, Texas
  • Suzhou River
  • Three Colours: Red

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  • Rapado

    ★★★★½

  • I Am Love

    ★★★½

  • Incoherence

    ★★★★

  • Shakti

    ★★★½

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  • Rapado

    Rapado

    ★★★★½

    Rejtman's Argentinian debut film Rapado (in English: Shaven) is a tight Chekhovian pattern story with a millimetered set of recurring elements that make a whole. The dialogue is flat, the camera is sensual and the faces still. Something's there, but hidden. A boy's bike and shoes gets stolen, and then he wanders around Buenos Aires barefoot, tries to get another one while constantly peddling fake money. With a heartbeating rhythm that's equally boring and full of drudgery, Rejtman creates a stale film that's actually brimming with life.

  • I Am Love

    I Am Love

    ★★★½

    Sensual editing and a very tactile cinematography, with impressive and well chosen transitions, which are (maybe) even more creative than CMBYN. But the dragging, theatrical plotline with forced themes is hard to patch up and even Tilda Swinton's gifted acting can't suspend disbelief. Watch for poetic/stylistic reasons, it's Luca, so it's hot.

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  • You Hide Me

    You Hide Me

    ★★★★

    'Why should Africans, including African artists, only be able to read about their own works of art in books written by white men?'

  • Parthenope

    Parthenope

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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