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  • Being There

  • Gone Girl

    ★★★★

  • Le Bonheur

    ★★★★½

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★

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  • The Man Who Sleeps

    The Man Who Sleeps

    ★★★★½

    Wow. A haunting exploration of alienation, narrated through the life of a young man who, disenchanted with society, decides to retreat into a life of indifference. It perfectly captures the absurdity of human existence, where every action is both meaningless and significant at once.

    This parallels everyone’s feelings of futility in self-discovery and choice. Just as the protagonist builds and breaks his self-imposed isolation, we often find ourselves endlessly constructing meanings around choices, only to have them dissolve back into…

  • Céline and Julie Go Boating

    Céline and Julie Go Boating

    ★★★★½

    This film crawled inside my head and stayed there. It seems a way of looking at the world I hadn’t realized I ascribed to is captured in 193 minutes .

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  • Alphaville

    Alphaville

    ★★★★

    If Humphrey Bogart stumbled into an episode of The Twilight Zone, with a touch of existential dread thrown in for good measure.

  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★★

    I watched this with mind, body and soul in unison twice in one week, either because I have a lot of pen up energy or because it’s one of the most interesting, thematically-rich, cerebrally-challenging, yet still emotional and visceral movies ever made. idk.

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