Akbar Septyawan

Akbar Septyawan

Favorite films

  • Cemetery of Splendor
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Before Midnight

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  • All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★

  • The Green Knight

    ★★★½

  • Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★

  • Nobody

    ★★★

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  • Nobody

    Nobody

    ★★★

    A fun watch and nice of a change of pace. Amidst the mundane and trouble in the works

  • Memoria

    Memoria

    ★★★★

    In the land of magical realism, we keep uncovering the things that we (need to) know.

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  • The Wind Will Carry Us

    The Wind Will Carry Us

    ★★★★

    Kiarostami films always remind me of the poetry of everyday life. His long lingering shoot, his character conversation in the car, the story of humane ordinary, and mundane repeated things that we do, seems tedious at first, but stay with you after the movie is over. In so far away, and seems the isolated world of Iran, they after all so uncannily similar to us.

  • Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

    Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

    ★★★★½

    Akhirnya nonton filmnya juga setelah sebelumnya ketar-ketir takut nggak tersedia di daerah saya yang hanya punya satu XXI. Dan semua yang dibayangkan. Semua ekpektasi yang muncul, paska baca novelnya, tersaji dengan baik dalam film Seperti Dendam.

    Adegan seksuil yang meresahkan (dan makin tambah resah karena nonton bareng ortu :|), disajikan secara telanjang, dan sebrutal mungkin untuk menggambarkan pengalaman penyintas kekerasan seksual, yang menghadapi kompleksitas, dan perasaan patah hati yang sangat dari perilaku biadab ini.

    Maskulinitas toksik dalam metafora "burung", dan…

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