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Favorite films

  • Possession
  • Theorem
  • Blood Tea and Red String
  • Chinese Roulette

All
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    ★★★★

  • Björk: Cornucopia

  • Wings of Desire

    ★★★★½

  • Mod Fuck Explosion

    ★★★½

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

★★★★ Liked Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

8½

1963

Watched

Fellini's cinematography is magnificent, he's everyone's idea of an italian auteur, but i couldn't connect with 8 1/2 in the way i anticipated that i would. i felt discomfort at the treatment of the women in this film, as fragmented pieces of his fantasy, which is a problem that i find with a lot of the classics. visual masterpiece, though even if i turn my head at the misogyny, there's still something hollow about it

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In My Skin

2002

★★★★ Liked 1

when no one got me, i know new french extremity female directors utilizing cannibalism as a symbol for repression in their arthouse body horror films got me

Saltburn

2023

★★ 2

oomf said that saltburn is teorema if it was bad, which is true, but i'm going to add that saltburn is teorema if it catered to an audience that pretends to like cinema because appropriating the aesthetics of intellectualism without its crux is a trend. the film really comes across as if the director of promising young woman attempted to adapt teorema into a contemporary landscape, but the subtlety and social commentary that make teorema and other films alike exceptional…

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