Abhishek

Abhishek

Favorite films

  • Three Colours: Red
  • Love Exposure
  • Blow-Up
  • I Am Cuba

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  • To Die For

    ★★★½

  • Everyone Else

    ★★★★½

  • Memento

    ★★★★½

  • La Ciénaga

    ★★★★★

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  • Everyone Else

    Everyone Else

    ★★★★½

    Hold her! Love her! Articulate tenderness as much as she shows toward you. Don't torment her, don't make her leave you, she's so precious- Prompted by such intricate, incisive narrative and the leads' acclimation to each other, Ade's sophomore feature disquiets as commonly as allures us amid the familiar disputes, silent aches, and passional warmth. Striking in both realism and relatability impregnated with emotional chaos and conflicts of relationship, this film evenly bespeaks those tremors and indiscernible ambiguities of that…

  • La Ciénaga

    La Ciénaga

    ★★★★★

    Pivoting around the climate of a sticky summer, Martel's radical and disturbing delve into the decadent side under a synthetic facet of normality that only may be fleeting and evident bespeaks the communal as much as domestic discontent and restlessness. Driven by its narrative display on familial disarray, isolation, socio-economic prejudices, and dysfunctionality, this relevant take on the frailties of human nature mirrors as well as binds the fragmentary glimpses of society, where the sense of disrelish and desperation seems…

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  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★½

    Conveyed with a cosmic touch of sensibility, implicit observations, and dignified naturalism, Wells' debut feature evenly heightens a ruminative exploration of human evocations, parenthood, relations and one's inner conflicts- where the emotions are understated, reflected through only its silence and existing hypnotic ambience- feels like the highest kind of sensory experience in its entirety.

    Executed with a mature sense of originality and nuanced performances from both Mescal and Corio, this film operates in a way where nothing much happens but…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    "I'm Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, duke of Arrakis! The hand of God be my witness, I am the voice from the outer world. I'll lead you to PARADISE."

    In retrospective language, there are only a few ones that evened this much grandness and enriching effect identical to Villeneuve's robustly mesmeric epic. Banked on dazzling visuals and intimate moments, the ride from unfilmability to a conquest of mastery and storytelling exhibits how conceited political chicanery gets superseded by the inevitable militarisation of…