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I found this film ... genuinely moving ... it was kooky, spooky, transcendent, absurd and pulpy all at once! The whacky casting makes for performances that consistently defy expectations, it merges trashy historical literature, new york experimental cinema and surrealist mystery to great avail - untenable yet works so well I say!!

Watched on Friday April 15, 2022.

Watched on Thursday February 13, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday January 28, 2025.

Watched on Friday January 24, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday February 5, 2025.

Art is dead. No but genuinely, just give me pure exposition. I no longer care for subtle messaging or deft camera work or nuanced characters or impressive compositions. Form is officially in the bin. Enough! From now on, didactics. Nothing else. That is all I have time for. No more art, thank you!

Delightful to see how this inspired Rohrwacher in La Chimera and what a delicious feast: subterranean miracles, ecclesiastical fashion shows, traffic jam circuses, dead cats flung on stage and a fleeting appearance of Anna Magnani to give us a good night bacio - Roma è la fine e vorrei finire a Roma!

worn-out doled-up connemara buachaillí go hard for acab

the scenes in the train hurdling towards the future really evoke the ghostliness that underpins objectification, we are all vehicles for the love of another, haunted (and sustained?) by the crushing temporalities of desire that cannot be :((

A holy trinity of mummy tyrant, baby tyrant & baby serf

Christopher Walken in space

Quirked up nostalgia trip celebrating the carnival of youth! It really is masterful in capturing the familiar wonder of childhood consciousness (very masculine of course). Everything is a haze counterpoised by stark moments like Teo up a tree screaming “Voglio una donnaaaaaaa” into the void of the Rimini paesaggio. Collected fragments of a melting memory are at once effervescent, crude, wicked and absurd. A Fellini-minestrone to transcend the circus <3

was not prepared for the visceral bodily response unleashed by David Zowie's 2015 'House Every Weekend' in the context of party package holidays, akin to cognitive waterboarding - legit cried 10 mins in

Really relate to this as a former party girl on the bibliography-adjacent career pipeline. Hoping the glass ceiling shatters and Mary wears her gorgeous silly outfits to library school!!!

*satanically possessed nuns demonically raving and romping about*
'Father, a holy relic from the king's own chapel, a phial of the blood of our lord Jesus Christ'
.... SIKE!!!
O, what vagary! A jolly good jape!

The macabre flowerchild medieval aesthetic is feverishly good. A film that made me realise how we shouldn't give a rats (wink wink) about narrative & dialogue when the hats are this impeccable. Open to recommendations for more black-death-era-hysteria films pls!

This was not demented, sexy nor rompy enough to do justice to Benadetta Carlini's crazy life as a gay Christian visionary - for a film about spiritual carnality and divine eroticism, it was soooooo dry and lacked any real fleshy drama or absurdity. We love mystical marriages//mystical sexual escapades - pls make this again ... but BETTER!!! (& directed by a woman)

vomiting frogs and wearing the carcass of a donkey that excretes jewels shall b the Irish goodbye of 2022

3 hours 13 minutes is simply not long enough for this fizzy-cloud-cream-puff of a cinematic experience - Ten zillion stars !! !! !! !!
In my finest french : j'obsessed

if only Toto paid more attention to his son, then we wouldn't be in this mess!!
By far Pasolini's most vicious take on women (and THAT's a feat!)

sublime puppetry

2 for chancer dodg
half for faggins boozy brekkie

...............but where's the twist???

Pure faff set in a languorous fin-de-siècle backdrop, fainting women in droves, Claude is about as seductive as mutton soup on the Welsh riviera. 1 star for Anne's leap from timid english lass to promiscuous sculptress, 1 star for Muriels cateracts induced eye garb, v steampunk

• Socrates
• The Messiah
• Augustine of Hippo
• The Flowers of St. Francis
• Joan of Arc at the Stake
• The Age of the Medici
• Cartesius
• Blaise Pascal
• The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
• Journey to Italy