Matthew Roberge

Matthew Roberge

Favorite films

  • Seven Samurai
  • Paris, Texas
  • Tampopo
  • Woman in the Dunes

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  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped

    ★★★

  • Evil Does Not Exist

    ★★½

  • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

    ★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★

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  • Incident by a Bank

    Incident by a Bank

    ★★

    I commend the effort of reenacting a scene with 90 actors/actresses from what appears to be one long take. However, it’s not groundbreaking or profound. It’s a simple, straightforward, inoffensive short film.

  • Taste

    Taste

    ★½

    While it does have some nicely framed shots and interesting scenes, this film did not captivate me. It would be better as a short film, if anything. 

    It felt like watching a series of nonstop odd art installations; which lost their luster as I became desensitized to them due to their frequency.

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  • The Quiet American

    The Quiet American

    ★½

    Apart from the main actress not being Vietnamese, the film was faithful and well acted up until the conclusion which undoes any good faith I had in the film. I’ve read the book and am aghast that they turned this film from anti-American interventionism into American propaganda. It’s no wonder that the author disavowed this film.

    With that it became just another Hollywood film that has taken a foreign source material and changed the conclusion for American audiences.

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

    Hiroshima Mon Amour

    ★★★★

    "Time will pass. Only time. And time will come. A time will come, when we can no longer name what it is that unites us. The name will gradually fade from our memory. Then it will disappear entirely."

    I did not realize it at the time; but this film will be forever tied to a memory of mine. It is impossible to view this film objectively as a result.

    I did not realize that what I was experiencing that day…