Jonas

Films to the research of my own filmmaking and life exploration.

Favorite films

  • Cloud Atlas
  • Mommy
  • Here Is Your Life
  • Hundreds of Beavers

All
  • La Collectionneuse

    ★★★★★

  • Suzanne’s Career

    ★★★★

  • Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak

    ★★★½

  • The Bakery Girl of Monceau

    ★★★★

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La Collectionneuse

1967

★★★★★ Liked Watched

– Haydée, I've often wondered what your smile means.
– Nothing
– That's what I thought.

sex, lies, and videotape

1989

★★★★½ Liked Watched

I'm a part of this because of you.

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Who Saw Him Die?

1968

★★★★½ Liked Watched

"The problem with me is that I stand on the pupils side... Against myself."

This was a tough watch. I saw so many of my past teachers in life in Oscarssons character. The anxiety and memories came right back to me. I so many of them getting run over by the other students and sometimes you just ed in because you didn't wanted to be bullied yourself. But what you really wanted to do was to help them.

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Beautiful Beings

2022

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I don't want to risk hurting someone, even if he's a bastard.

If you want further proof that there's no lack in the current cinematic output look no further. I couldn't imagine that Guðmudsson would follow up Heartstone with a coming-of-age story as violent as this. But as people has noted before it has sprinkles of very warm intimatate and close moments between the boys. Sturla Brandt's cinematography is as good as ever this time mixed with dreamesque sequences and the use of macro-photography.