ₛᵤₘᵢ ࿐

ₛᵤₘᵢ ࿐

Favorite films

  • Saravah
  • The King and the Mockingbird
  • Ida
  • Whisper of the Heart

Recent activity

All
  • Taxi Driver

    ★★★★★

  • Melancholia

    ★★★★

  • West Beirut

    ★★★

  • What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

    ★★★★½

Recent reviews

More
  • Taxi Driver

    Taxi Driver

    ★★★★★

    grain de beauté sent down from heaven…

  • Melancholia

    Melancholia

    ★★★★

    can’t say I cared for any of these people having a bad time at a huge wedding and then freaking out in their huge castle but that doesn’t seem to be the aim of the film at all given the distinct lack of pathétisme (pathos?) involved. however it still very much affected me. its exploration of both depression and ‘being doomed’ transcended the characters to do something which the best of films do: make me feel like I’ve gained a…

Popular reviews

More
  • What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

    What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

    ★★★★½

    I don't know what it is, probably the sunlight, but I don't think humans have ever looked as beautiful as they do in this film...

    also happy to have discovered georgian script, which looks so magical

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    ★★★★★

    I can only begin by praising the heights reached by the visuals of this film. Somehow, it reminds me of the animated short film ‘Puparia’ perhaps as both of these films tremendously exceed the effort one would ever expect to come across in media crafted solely by humans.
    These visuals are intensely colourful and often close to objective in their beauty, yet to me they don’t seem to serve a primarily aesthetic purpose. Rather their biggest feat is preserving and…

Following

27