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Carol 2015
If there was a concise historical volume of my cinematic pilgrimage, it will probably open with the little joys of childhood transpired on a screen. The brief whir of the VHS as it loads the tape of “101 Dalmatians”, the vague memory of sitting in a theatre for the first time at around 7 years old after I pestered my mother to bring me to a screening of a local film because I liked the actress, and trips to the…
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Petite Maman 2021
“Secrets aren’t always things we try to hide. There’s just no one to tell them to.”
“Petite Maman” movingly dismantles the temporal segments of the human existence beneath the mild tremors of grief, the mesh of identities. The past, present, and future collapse and collide amidst. Doused with autumnal shades and piled with riven branches, a mother’s death scales us back to our younger selves, dislodging us in our place in the world not because it suddenly looks different at…
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Insomnia 1997
Almost halfway through "Insomnia," I realised I watched the American remake with Al Pacino many moons ago. I thought that was ok. Not great, but ok. As far as remakes go, there is an implicit acceptance that most cannot surpass a good original. Indeed, the Norwegian "Insomnia" is nothing different. It is undoubtedly better-made, heightened by the temperamental Nordic weather sweeping along its enchanting rocky cliffs and gloomy, well-spaced, and very individual suburban buildings, mantling every sight in either fog,…
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Crossing Delancey 1988
With all its readymade charm and heartfelt humour, “Crossing Delancey” occupies the commonly frustrating interplay between the ideal and the attainable. Romantic standards do not only, at times, get out of hand. They also let people loose in the streets of ambivalence, across rooms of endless dabbling on possibilities, in the back-and-forths between the dreamed lover and the actual lover. “Crossing Delancey” is seemingly simple in its premise: Izzy, a bookshop clerk, is torn between two men, one a pickle…
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Moonlit Winter 2019
the heavy snowfall in Moonlit Winter piles up along the driveway and the streets and is laboriously shovelled and cleared out the next day only to pile up again. an allusion to feelings tucked in so long ago that ebbs and flows whenever the switch of memories is flicked on and off.
where there is vulnerability in communication through undelivered letters, words muttered in the air without a response, phrases written on paper without a reader, longing gushes ragingly amidst…
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National Theatre Live: Fleabag 2019
“you know, either everyone feels like this a little bit, and they're just not talking about it, or I'm completely fucking alone. which isn't fucking funny.”
my thoughts, my thoughts, my thoughts...
obviously I’m not able to catch the play at a theatre because I currently live in Narnia nor are there any screenings near me but I managed to find a copy somewhere. other than visiting a country last May I think watching the series is the only other…
