MayaLK

Favorite films

  • Of Whales, the Moon, and Men
  • Small Change
  • His Motorbike, Her Island
  • Aftersun

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  • His Motorbike, Her Island

    ★★★★★

  • Sink or Swim

    ★★★½

  • Souleymane's Story

    ★★★★½

  • Incident at Restigouche

    ★★★★

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His Motorbike, Her Island

1986

★★★★★ Watched

New favourite film

Sink or Swim

2018

★★★½ Watched

Flimsy and grey, but full of comion -& I liked how improbable the whole thing was

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Streetwise

1984

★★★★ Watched

These kids seemed so comfortable acting as their own selves for the camera. Because they are playful? Because the unexpected events of the street made the camera the least of their concerns? or because it’d be hard to even know how to act differently when you are so used to being a survivor always on the lookout.

How hard is it to act as your own self? How much of it is ‘acting’? Did these kids watch the film afterwards? I love ethnographic film for how it presents life situations back to its subjects.

A Summer's Tale

1996

★★★★ Watched

If you want to see how anthropologists flirt.

With the amount of one-on-one endless plan-séquence conversations I can assure you that Rohmer hates groups more than Gaspard.

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