Filipe Furtado

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Days and Nights in the Forest 1970

★★★ Watched by Filipe Furtado 20 May 2022

I'm surprised by how much this made me think of Lav Diaz, particular in how the action is pre-defined over a larger social tapestry, but Ray's conception of character is much warmer and less overly symbolic. I think there isn't quite enough breathing room to break up the movie tight structure, but Ray has a very alert eye to human behavior and let the accumulation of gestures speak for the movie.
I Walk the Line 1970

★★ Watched by Filipe Furtado 19 May 2022

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

Straight arrow southern sheriff Gregory Peck falls hard for young Tuesday Weld and compromise himself for her criminal family. His midlife crisis and moral rot is made to stand in for an entire dying region which is far too much for the film to sustain. Director John Frankenheimer gets a lot of mileage out of Peck as a compromised icon, one is supposed to think of Atticus Finch going bad because he is bored, depressed and horny, Peck is a…

Jojo Rabbit 2019

★ Watched by Filipe Furtado 28 Dec 2019 10

Even Wes Anderson should be arrested for his indirect involvement with this thing.
Taipei Story 1985

★★★★½ Rewatched by Filipe Furtado 14 Jun 2017 2

A monument to all the things left behind during the unforgiving process of forging an identity.