sad cinema enthusiast (especially french and east asian)
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Amélie 2001
Amélie is like the feeling of warm embrace, reassurance that in loneliness, too, beauty exists. Amélie silently suffers a quiet sadness, an existential thought: is it enough if one were to be the silent architect of other people's joy but forgot their own?
"You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than build relationships with those around her?"
In many ways, Amélie is a love letter to dreamers, to those who find solace in the periphery…Translated from by -
Riceboy Sleeps 2022
Few filmmakers capture a kind of cinematic poetry: in the way a film flows between frames, sits in the stillness of a quiet room, and exists in the space between unspoken words. Riceboy Sleeps is less a told story than a remembered one. It feels like anything but a traditional, structured narrative; rather, it feels like a bunch of memories imperfect, deeply personal, and emotionally raw, as if someone is recalling their past rather than telling a scripted story.
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