thebigOther

mort au symbolique

Favorite films

  • On the Silver Globe
  • Satantango
  • Birds, Orphans and Fools
  • City of Pirates

All
  • Days of Heaven

    ★★★½

  • Belle de Jour

    ★★★½

  • The Public Woman

    ★★★★½

  • Taste of Cherry

    ★★★★★

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Belle de Jour

1967

★★★½ Watched

Highly Freudian. Supplemented appropriately by the most suffocating bourgeois home decor yet encountered.

Also: Marcel, take me.

The Public Woman

1984

★★★★½ Liked Watched

I don't know how to rate this but I think tentatively that Z has produced another masterpiece, though I couldn't possibly tell you everything that happened. He really waited 3 years or so, snorted a line, and said fuck it Possession 2.0 and turned up the dials on his script handily labelled "sex", "madness", "metacinematography" and "narrative incoherency". It may simply be that I am lost or otherwise quite profoundly disturbed but I cannot fault his style (indeed at least…

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Possession

1981

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

When I was a boy my dog crawled out onto the porch to die. Before the end it yelped, as if it had seen something real.

Everything one could hope for in Zulawski. Better than I ed - just completely unhinged. Its excess is only mediated by the wan and sickly tones of its cinematography. The handling of space is, as to be expected, irreverent and nauseating. I can tell you little about this film but can manage a few…

Taste of Cherry

1997

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I attempted writing a novella in my early teens (of questionable, indeed poor, quality) in which the conclusion entailed a single, lonely suicide. It was on a bench, that universal figure of contemplation and solitude, but I say attempted because I never finished it. It seems that some things fade. Some fascinations strain your eyes, obsessions if we permit ourselves, make the mark on your left arm numb. Others smell like rain by a pool, or the custard tart that…

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