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Favorite films

  • Pierrot le Fou
  • Golden Eighties
  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
  • Martyrs

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  • Suicide Room

    ★★★½

  • Cadet Kelly

    ★★★★

  • Martyrs: Organic Chronicles

    ★★★½

  • Nightingales in December

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  • Suicide Room

    Suicide Room

    ★★★½

    Suicide Room is a dreamy film that wears its heart on its sleeve. Call it melodramatic, call it kitsch, call it a product of its time. Call it the joys of capitalist derangement meeting juvenile tribalism (if you can throw money at it or make fun of it, then "it" is not a problem anymore).

    The film is a fairy tale of love that can only exist in an artificial world, and hope that only lies in another lifetime. I appreciated the references to Franz Schubert, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Cobain, Sarah Kane, Yukio Mishima –heroes to the outsiders of an unrelenting world.

  • Cadet Kelly

    Cadet Kelly

    ★★★★

    So brave of Disney to foray into the hundred-year cultural dialectic between psychoanalytic, esoteric, anti-rational republics and militaristic, authoritarian nation-states, and the two’s immanent power struggle over their shared obsessions: aesthetics, body culture, thought control, and homosexuality. In this essay I will

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  • Of the Flesh

    Of the Flesh

    ★★★★½

    Karnal does not simply personify evil – it humanizes it. Marilou Diaz-Abaya and Ricky Lee transform allegorical figures of danger into these half-human, half-animal figures that'll pull your heart out after they hold you in their arms.

    That's the most terrifying part of it – the volatility. Characters you expect to explode in anger are suddenly empathic, yet in the sweltering heat of nowhere, even the most well-composed man becomes an animalistic ravager. You have Gusting, the haciendero father, who…

  • The Death King

    The Death King

    ★★★★½

    Macabre ruminations on death, with structural film elements driving emotional onslaught. “That which kills me, will remain my secret” (F. Lacenaire), only before it transmutes into emotional gangrene – or eruptive violence.

    And so it goes.

    (The goth girl's nonchalance towards the letter was amusing)