Jacques Ciesla

Jacques Ciesla

Favorite films

  • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Ordet
  • The Thin Red Line

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  • The Return of Ringo

    ★★★½

  • A Pistol for Ringo

    ★★★

  • Unacknowledged

    ★★★½

  • The Beast

    ★★★★

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  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

    ★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • We Live in Time

    We Live in Time

    ★★½

    Doing this one no favors by watching it the day after The Bridges of Madison County but even still, this is mostly nothing. I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it a pleasant watch though. The pace is too fast and the actors too committed for me to hate it. Although, in the former's case, I wish they let off the gas a bit more so we could actually learn anything substantive about the characters that may actual lend some larger weight to the romance and sadness of it all.

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  • The House That Jack Built

    The House That Jack Built

    ★½

    Philosophically bankrupt in the worst possible way. Von Trier doesn't care about making movies, he cares about getting reactions and spewing pseudo-philosophical dribble about life being hard and how there's no point to anything. Make those points, but do it well and don't beat me over the head with it. The way Von Trier does it is the same way a 14 year old who's just been introduced to Nietzsche would - by complaining about the hardships of life and…

  • Punch-Drunk Love

    Punch-Drunk Love

    ★★★★★

    I relate to Adam Sandler's character so much so that it makes me genuinely uncomfortable.