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Ambulance 2022

★★★½ Watched by Patrick Devitt 19 Apr 2022

Who wears Birkenstocks to a bank robbery ?
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Paris, 13th District 2021

★½ Rewatched by Patrick Devitt 14 Apr 2022 1

The films of Jacques Audiard chaperone the audience into the unknown. His wide-ranging approach has seen him tackle the gritty prison drama (A Prophet), a French remake of James Toback’s Fingers (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), a violent western featuring an all-star cast (The Sisters Brothers), and even a melodramatic Palme d’Or winner following a group of immigrants attempting to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka (Dheepan). There is an inescapable attraction to the way he paints his…

The Red Turtle 2016

★★½ Watched by Patrick Devitt 31 Aug 2016 1

A surprising amount of green turtles in this.
La La Land 2016

★ Watched by Patrick Devitt 12 Sep 2016 6

Stone: I hate jazz.
Gosling: Let me show you something.
[cut to them at Gosling's apartment watching Whiplash]
Gosling: THIS is jazz.