Simone 🐀

“Published” “writer”

Favorite films

  • Mouchette
  • Death in Venice
  • Blow-Up
  • Satyricon

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  • Je Tu Il Elle

  • El Topo

  • Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis

  • Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis

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Je Tu Il Elle

1974

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Où Akerman s'applique à la tache de nous immerger aux faits du isolement et comment nous en souffrons. Un sac de sucre, un mur - la vie de Julie n'est que la nécessitée absolue. Je m'intéresse au monologue du cammonieur - plusieurs décennies avant Borat s'est entré un camping-car et a laissé des mecs de fraternité se ruinent, Akerman a compris les profondeurs de la perversion dont les hommes va avouer si on les permettre à parler avec l'encouragement implicite.…

El Topo

1970

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The principled brutality of the outlaw is favorably compared to the gluttonous cancer of the Europeanized new world. Where frontier settlements are held together through the self-satisfied violence, the outsider’s perpetual states of errancy and degradation allow for renewal. Jodorowsky is a Luciferian figure but he’s also a genius spiritual cartoonist.

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Mean Streets

1973

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I'm glad that I gave Mean Streets a second chance. I loved the visual style, exactly what one would expect based on the striking poster. It captures a skeevy New York (paradoxically filmed in L.A.) similar to the one Scorsese would capture in Taxi Driver a few years later. On old grainy film, the grime of the city is palpable. Deep reds, browns, and shadows of sheer black loom over the action. Despite the primitive feel compared to Scorsese's later…

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

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A week later, I can’t stop thinking about the way Scorsese filmed the death of Mollie’s mother. Death as a benevolent hand leading us away. Thank god for that moment of gentleness. Thank god for that final shot. I’m thankful for everything lovely that doesn’t redeem us. The alternative is Ernest’s idiotic frown, unshakeable, stolid enough to hold mass graves. That frown carries history in the most violent sense.