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  A Quiet Life 1995

  ★ Watched by Tao A 20 May 2022 11

  Words cannot begin to describe what an utterly excruciating experience that was and I’m not even talking about the rape scenes that Itami has a habit of putting in his otherwise mostly wholesome movies. The movie itself is just so, unrelentingly, brutally, boring. The more Itami I see (and I’ve seen quite enough) the more I’m starting to believe Tampopo might’ve been a lightning in a bottle and he was just never good to begin with.

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★½ Watched by Tao A 18 May 2022 12

  I would like this a lot more if it was an anime and weren’t so reddit.

Popular reviews

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  Paris, Texas 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched by Tao A 20 Nov 2016 11

  Paris, Texas > Paris, France

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  Joint Security Area 2000

  ★★★★½ Watched by Tao A 25 Aug 2020 122

  I know letterboxd’s user base consists roughly 95% of zoomers who saw Parasite as their first ever foreign language film and it breaks my heart to see headlines like this nowadays but those of us in the know, know that Park Chan-wook > Bong Joon-ho. Always has been. I’ve seen all but one (Barking Dogs Never Bite) of Bong Joon-ho’s feature films and I can tell you with a high degree of certainty that not ONE of them, masterpieces that they are, made…