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  Asteroid City 2023

  ★★½ Rewatched 03 Mar 2025

  I appreciate the quirkiness but the characters and the story felt a bit shallow.

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 18 Jan 2025

  Ohh this film…I really did not know how to rate it. I have a very mixed relationship with the films of Luca Guadagnino. I really did not like Challengers and I really don’t understand what other people saw in it. But I did like Bones and All and Call Me By Your Name. I think Luca Guadagnino is great in building surreal atmospheres and  telling stories that find a good balance between taking us on an immersive journey and leaving…

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  Fitzcarraldo 1982

  ½ Watched 25 Jun 2023 2

  I regret watching this film because I did not know that people died for someone’s self-important and incredibly useless idea of pulling up a ship over the mountain. It’s not poetic, it’s just colonial. The narrative of bringing European “high culture”  into the jungle doesn’t make it better. Especially because Werner Herzog seems to know that it is ridiculous. Fitz is clearly portrayed as manic, but Herzog dwells in romanticizing the “crazy genius” archetype. Art doesn’t justify death and exploitation.

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★ Rewatched 26 Jul 2023

  I hate to be the feminist killjoy. But I think I have to be.

  Overall, the film is beautifully made. The set and costumes feel a bit too clean for my taste but of course this is exactly the pink glamour that you need for a Barbie movie. 

  I watched this film with a few feminist friends in Amsterdam, and we all had a similar feeling afterwards: The film is as feminist as Barbie can be. However, it is never…

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