Bruno Duarte

Bruno Duarte

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Persona
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Vertigo

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  • Dune

    ★★★★½

  • Ran

    ★★★★★

  • Barbie

    ★★★★

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★½

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★½

    With Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve delivers a grand sequel that is even more ambitious than its predecessor. If Dune: Part One established the foundations of the universe and the tragedy of Paul Atreides, the second part expands the political, religious and philosophical discussions in a masterful way. This is not just a blockbuster, but a study of fanaticism, destiny and the dangers of messianism.

    The Atreides heir's journey grows increasingly dark as he navigates the promise of justice and…

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★½

    Dune: Part One is a singular cinematic experience. A film that not only conveys the grandeur of Frank Herbert's novel, but also respects its complexity and relevance. Far from being just a space fantasy, Dune establishes itself as a study of power, control, religious fanaticism and adaptation in a world where every choice has monumental repercussions.

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    Anora's strength lies in the ambiguity of its protagonist, a character suspended between naivety and cleverness, between the desire for true love and the brutality of the world around her. Sean Baker constructs the film as a critique of the failure of the American dream, but at certain moments he seems to lose control of the narrative, diverting the focus from the title character to a comedy of errors led by the Russian trio.

    As much as the humor works…

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★½

    Everything Everywhere all at once is a film that presents itself as revolutionary, but is, in fact, the purest reflection of what contemporary cinema has become: an endless feed of visual stimuli, thematic nonsense camouflaged as depth and a spectacle of form that never finds content.

    The Daniels' film is structured as an ode to chaos, using the concept of the multiverse to build a narrative that, theoretically, talks about choices, family traumas and the insignificance of existence. The problem…

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