Nicolas Patron

Favorite films

  • The Salt of the Earth
  • Meantime
  • Miss Manager
  • To Live and Die in L.A.

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  • Love, Death & Robots: The Very Pulse of the Machine

  • Love, Death & Robots: All Through the House

  • Love, Death & Robots: Mason's Rats

  • Love, Death & Robots: Beyond the Aquila Rift

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Warfare

2025

★★★★ Watched

A visceral unflinching and hyperrealistic fly on the wall look into a situation a SEAL platoon finds itself in 2006 in Ramadi, Iraq; a story written from the memories and s of those involved during that incident.
There is little useful dialogue for the audience to decipher unless one is versed in military jargon, so what we get is sounds whether subtle ones like dogs barking on the background or fighter planes that fly through streets at low altitudes as…

PlayTime

1967

★★★★ Watched

Prepare yourselves for a cinematic rollercoaster that will leave you questioning the very fabric of reality - and possibly your sanity. “Playtime” is a masterpiece of organized chaos, a symphony of architectural anarchy that will have you laughing, crying, and possibly considering a career change to become a professional cubicle designer.
In this concrete jungle, our hero Monsieur Hulot navigates a labyrinth of glass, steel, and bureaucratic nonsense with all the grace of a bull in a china shop -…

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Better Luck Tomorrow

2002

★★★ Watched

The Fast and furious franchise got two things out of this movie: Han Lue and the actual title of the series which is used as line “Rumors came and went fast and furious“ about half way through.

Sleuth

1972

★★★ Watched

Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Sleuth (1972) is a celebrated cat-and-mouse thriller featuring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, set almost entirely within a single, eccentric English country house. The film is widely praised for its clever script, theatrical atmosphere, and the dynamic between its two leads, who engage in a series of psychological games and reversals.
However, I found the first act far-fetched, with the film’s initial setup stretching plausibility and relying on elaborate schemes and theatrical conceits that felt at times…

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Dinner for Few

2015

★★★★½ Watched

The elite (judges, politicians, high priests, etc) are pigs devouring and depleting resources, chained to their power chair, leaving leftovers to the ones below until there is nothing left. But when everything is expended, the ones below rebel and take over Until they become pigs and the cycle starts all over.
But all this on shaky ground and there is a finite number of cycles left...
A brilliant animated allegory of a society designed to serve the greedy few.

1917

2019

★★★★ Watched

Beautifully and skilfully shot and stitched together to feel as a one continued/unbroken take, giving a more personal feeling to this story. The score added significantly to the dramatic feel as did the amazing cinematography with special mention to the spectacular visual play of shadows and light in the heavily bombed out village of Écoust-Saint-Mein.
It does feel like the film was made with awards in mind and this is clear in the extent of the set, the extras, the costumes and the impressive choreography which must have taken forever to get spot on with the result being hauntingly spectacular.