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Favorite films

  • No Other Land
  • Mulholland Drive
  • In the Mood for Love
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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  • Silkwood

    ★★★½

  • Incendies

    ★★★★½

  • A Passage to India

    ★★★★½

  • Paris Is Burning

    ★★★★★

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★★

    In 2025, this is the most timely, relevant, and powerful documentary imaginable, as it lays bare the plight of the Palestinians for the world to see.

    And we can't turn our eyes away: as a human collective, we must acknowledge this terrible, unjust reality and do our part, however small, to give it visibility.

    So the Palestinians, like their Western counterparts, can live free from occupation, free from apartheid, free from having their human rights systematically violated, free from being killed. So the Palestinians can live free in their land.

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  • Silkwood

    Silkwood

    ★★★½

    The film tells the story of real-life figure Karen Silkwood, a woman who found the courage to seek to expose major irregularities at the plutonium processing plant she worked at. In a broader sense, the film speaks about capitalistic greed, the importance of workers being organised so as to not be run over by it, and the bravery of everyday people to bring about change.
    The cast is so moving and memorable: Meryl Streep is nothing short of tremendous in…

  • A Passage to India

    A Passage to India

    ★★★★½

    Leave it to David Lean to conjure up the most majestic, breathtaking visuals and put them in service of a story well told.

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  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

    It manages to pull you in the story of this family, and make you deeply feel for what they go through every step of the way. It is, above all, a human story, that resonates universally with its exploration of family union, resilience and determination, but it is also a political story, set in the very dark time of the dictatorship in Brazil. The film does a great job of balancing both, although of course, they are not really separate…

  • The Double Life of Véronique

    The Double Life of Véronique

    ★★★★½

    Yellow never was so mysteriously gorgeous.
    Wait, is this a prequel to the Three Colours trilogy?