leanne

leanne

i am not very good at being critical about films so i won't write much on here but i like watching them :3

Favorite films

  • Suzhou River
  • Memoria
  • Far from Heaven
  • East Palace, West Palace

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  • Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

  • The Teachers' Lounge

  • Better Man

  • Aattam

    ★★★½

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  • Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

    Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

    India is actually a large scale sociological study on whether fiction can affect reality because every classic of Indian cinema is about how notions like tradition and culture are just smokescreens for bourgeois reaction and true love will triumph and still India remains conservative and orthodox even in its most liberal of pockets.

  • Aattam

    Aattam

    ★★★½

    first stop in my tour of every film to win India's national film awards best feature, starting off on familiar turf with a v. contemporary malayalam drama, though i don't actively keep up with recent releases outside of when i visit my parents and they put me onto interesting stuff.

    there is a certain inelegance to the setup here that i found hard to deal with, which is not purely the intentional awkwardness of its male ensemble scrambling in the…

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