Siddhika

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Favorite films

  • The Green Ray
  • Vertigo
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Three Colours: Red

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  • Caprice

    ★★½

  • Love & Friendship

    ★★★½

  • Strange Way of Life

    ★★★★

  • Lick the Star

    ★★★

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  • Caprice

    Caprice

    ★★½

    Young Swinton and her jolly face — she has a flair for carrying any piece of clothing effortlessly.

  • Love & Friendship

    Love & Friendship

    ★★★½

    Adapted from Jane Austen's unfinished work, a novella named "Lady Susan", the protagonist is played by Kate Beckinsale, very brilliantly indeed. She is a widower and now in search of a husband for herself and her daughter. 

    Unlike other works of Stillman, this stands apart as he proves to set his well known way of direction into an aesthetic period piece. Although they are still mindlessly talking yet making sense, they're looking for a lover but in the wrong person, they still are witty and humorous, but in a completely contrary manner. It's a watch-worthy people-talking, amusing screenplay that does get dull at times.

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  • Strange Way of Life

    Strange Way of Life

    ★★★★

    Good lord it was a delight to get some minutes of Almodovar's red and green palette and gay romance. In my opinion, they both shared such good chemistry; i wasn't expecting to get such heat waves from two not-so-young gay men who be riding a horse and getting skin-to-skin. 

    Forget the abrupt ending - it is how it's supposed to be; that's what the strange way of life is, folks. 

  • My Night at Maud's

    My Night at Maud's

    ★★★★★

    It starts and goes on like you're watching them from a distance, living their everyday, and, gradually you start to grasp their character as you watch them existing and talking. 
    You feel like you're a part of it; sitting in the same room where they converse about morality, their ideologies, and they seem to actually be listening to one another even if they are at odds. 

    It is an ageless monochrome film with an impressively beautiful cinematography.

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