Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  grain de beauté sent down from heaven…

• 

  Melancholia 2011

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  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

• 

  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  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…

• 

  What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  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

Following