SimBelm

SimBelm

Things repeat themselves with differences I can't understand.

Favorite films

  • The Wayward Cloud
  • Yi Yi
  • Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
  • Road

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  • Babygirl

    ★★★

  • La Chimera

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★

  • Red Rooms

    ★★★

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  • The Hole

    The Hole

    ★★★★★

    In his 1998 film The Hole I believe that Tsai Ming-liang hit a breaking point with his portrayal of apartments that flood, crack up, or fall apart. The film is set during an epidemic that is wiping out Taiwan's population. I think this setting serves as an insight into how the main character views society. To him it might as well be decomposing for his attention lies on the woman living in the apartment directly below his.

    As with Tsai's…

  • A.K.A. Serial Killer

    A.K.A. Serial Killer

    ★★★★½

    Known mostly in the West for his screenplays that went on to become some of Koji Wakamatsu's and Nagisa Oshima's masterpieces, Masao Adachi proves with his 1969 film AKA Serial Killer that he's just as capable a director as a screenwriter.

    As you can guess from the title the film probes a common theme of the Japanese New Wave, identity and how one is formed, like James Benning's Landscape Suicide, there's an exploration into the habitat of someone who's been…

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