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  Midsommar 2019

  ★★★★ Rewatched by Abel 12 Jul 2022

  3 years of life experience later and the extra depth you get from a rewatch allowed me to appreciate this much more.

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  ★★★½ Watched by Abel 07 Jul 2022

  Yes, sometimes it feels like my bed also needs a software update.

Popular reviews

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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched by Abel 22 Jul 2018

  "Acetylcholine neurons fire high voltage impulses into the forebrain. The impulses become pictures, the pictures become your dream. But no one knows why we choose these particular pictures." – Cooper

  It's not just the owls: In the universe of Lynch, nothing is what it seems.

  Just like its characters, we, the audience, are placed in a limbo where reality and dreamland are superimposed on each other; where we walk a path that continuously crosses a Möbius plane of the two dimensions.

  For the dreamland to exist, there only needs to be a dreamer.

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  Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One 2015

  ★★★★ Watched by Abel 14 Sep 2015

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

  "As Mil e Uma Noites" is the latest film (at the time of writing) by the Portuguese Miguel Gomes, a director who first caught my attention with "Tabu", which received acclaim in Portugal and internationally. His new work, a trilogy amassing 381 minutes divided into 3 Volumes, debuted at Cannes at the Director’s Fortnight, having been considered for Palm d’Or but its sheer duration would be problematic for the festival’s agenda. Meanwhile, it has already won some prizes, such as…