Dini

Favorite films

  • The Beaches of Agnès
  • Cemetery of Splendor
  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  • Céline and Julie Go Boating

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  • No Exorcism Film

  • Fatucha Superstar – Ópera Rock… Bufa

    ★★★½

  • Surname Viêt Given Name Nam

    ★★★★

  • Apostles of Cinema

    ★★★½

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Fatucha Superstar – Ópera Rock… Bufa

1976

★★★½ Liked Watched

impressive discovery that they have a union for angels and saints up there. beautiful film, converting to catholicism tomorrow

Surname Viêt Given Name Nam

1989

★★★★ Liked Watched

this movie performs multiple types of documentary forms to test out the audience's belief in the narrative. the first half of the movie concentrated on different women sitting on a talking head style, talking in english with a thick vietnamese accent with an unnatural intonation that sounds like they are reading out of the text -- i struggled to decipher what they're saying, but also made me horrified of myself and my judgement of what is a 'good' and 'understandable'…

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Photocopier

2021

★★½ 1

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

Gie

2005

★★★★ Liked 3

Usually I'm not a big fan of national history biopics, but I really enjoy this film. Mainly because its ability to highlight Gie's struggle of idealism from a personal point of view. It's easier to relate with, and most importantly it's not a history textbook film; you can see that the intention is not to fill in between the lines of the textbook but to exist as a movie of itself without violating the actual events.