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  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  I’m having a hard time evaluating this. Because I definitely did not enjoy this. But I do believe that the length of the film is necessary. Every scene being stretched out and stationary camera-wise, almost every scene set within the confines of four walls, was needed to make the audience feel the monotony that Jeanne (and many housewives) feel on a daily basis. At the same time, I was checking my phone for the time because I wanted OUT. Watching…

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  Rhythm 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  Whoa. Surprisingly delightful! 25 years since this movie came out and I don’t think I’ve seen another mature romance about two adults with baggage from Tamil cinema (this is probably what Kadhalikka Neramillai 🤢 was going for but completely failed because of its need to be edgy and “modern”). Has a lot of heart and does not judge any character, even when they’re clearly in the wrong about things. Docked one star for the somewhat jarring editing and how the…

Popular reviews

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  All We Imagine as Light 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2024 3

  Yeh mayanagari hai.

  Intha maayatha nambanum. Illenaa paithiyam pidichidum.

  Mumbai is a dizzying, bluish-hued blur but it is the migrant working class women who are showed in focus this time. Migrant working class women are an often invisiblised group in India, even in Indian cinema, but here they finally get their long-deserved spotlight. 

  Anyone who lives in a large metropolitan city would know (even if they refuse to admit it) that without the labour of migrants, their cities will cease…

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  Raavanan 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Aug 2024 4

  I can’t remember where I read this, but I remember that it was a review of a Joshua Cohen book, and the writer mentioned something about how in Jewish culture, tradition is interpreted so much that interpretation itself has become a Jewish tradition. The reason why I mention this is because interpretation of tradition and our religious epics is not encouraged in Indian Hindu society. Anything that widely differs from established narrative is viewed as anathema, you can’t raise a…