Francesca de Rochefort

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Favorite films

  • The Mother and the Whore
  • Youth Without Youth
  • Red Desert
  • Nouvelle Vague

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  • Tokyo Story

    ★★★★

  • TÁR

    ★★★★

  • My Name Is Nobody

    ★★★

  • The Mouth Agape

    ★★★

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  • A Matter of Life and Death

    A Matter of Life and Death

    ★★★★★

    As of the time of writing this, I have seen just shy of 3,000 movies (2,966 to be exact) once shorts are excluded from the count, of which a considerable majority must have been seen since my addiction to cinema became full blown circa 2017-2018. After all the many hours I’ve spent immersed in the artform, I have gone through some pretty dramatic shifts in my taste, aesthetics and what appeals to me in cinema even if many old favourites…

  • La Cérémonie

    La Cérémonie

    ★★★★★

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

    One of the big problems with the way I review movies is that I usually do so not long after seeing them, almost always on the same night, so my reviews aren't so much my congealed thoughts about a film as much as they are my first, unformed impressions, the stuff that I was immediately thinking about after I finished the film and while experiencing it for the first time. Oftentimes that's fine, and nothing much changes or occurs to…

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  • Tokyo Story

    Tokyo Story

    ★★★★

    The Films of Yasujirō Ozu

    Can't believe I got the chance to see this in my local cinema - feels like whoever does the programming there is specifically trying to get me to drop money lately and I welcome it. Anyway, Tokyo Story for a long time seemed to be the token Ozu film everyone had to see and it still enjoys a somewhat elevated status compared to the other films of his miraculous post-war run of classics. I do…

  • TÁR

    TÁR

    ★★★★

    Another one I avoided for longer than I probably should to let the Discourse settle, even if two years on I still regularly see Lydia Tar memes about in the wild in a way which suggests this film has future longevity even if it's dealing with very present issues. Speaking of which my expectations for this ended up being defied somewhat as from the way my Twitter feed was describing it I was under the impression this film was essentially…

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  • The Women

    The Women

    ★★★★

    When will Sephora drop Jungle Red nail polish and Summer Rain perfume so I can finally live my MGM dreams

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    I could just write something like "the bimboification of Lars von Trier" probably and leave it at that and maybe even have a shot at my first review to get 3 digit amounts of likes but I have set my face like flint against the demon of one-liner reviewing and if I succumb to the dopamine hits now who knows where it will end. A lot of people on here seem to be criticising this from some kind of socio-political…