Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  U.S. Go Home 1994

  ★★★½ Rewatched 09 Feb 2025

  Fazia um tempo que eu não me sentia tão desapontado (comigo mesmo?) por não ter amado um filme que eu amava antes. Acho que eu não entendo mais a juventude, acho que a juventude não me interessa mais. Só a infância importa pra mim. É, deve ser isso.

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  You Can Count on Me 2000

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 31 Jan 2025

  Repito o que escrevi antes: eu merecia um filme como este todo mês.

  Não tem. Não tem. Não tem.

Popular reviews

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  Crossing Delancey 1988

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Nov 2014

  Stunning. From the get-go, quite Rivettean ("Is he an obsession?", from the guy selling books on the street; the crazy lady singing an incantatory hymm at a snack bar). The latter half is full-on Rohmerian goodness; Amy Irving reprises the most glorious, annoying, unsettling and batshit insane aspects of the Marie Rivière collage of characters I keep in my heart. What else is here? A marriage broker who eats like a pig and whose husband commited suicide for reasons unbeknownst…

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  The Man in the Moon 1991

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Dec 2016

  Atmosphere, nature, lyricism. Pastoral wonderland: the older sisters sleep in the porch--it's summer. And you could almost go from their house to the lake with your eyes closed. Such an intuitive film. I love how Reese's parents let her hang out in the cemetery, or how the mother can sense a sibling rivalry with just a glance, and even how the father is so attuned to their daughter's sensibilities. While it ventures into town, church, a dance, hospital, plans for college, it just never stopped flowing between the two houses, the two families, the two sisters. Very delicate, a small wonder.