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After the Storm 2016
Wow.
I saw Shoplifters a few years ago and loved it. This is just as good in a completely different way. It's slow and soulful—but never boring. This is exactly my kind of film. I really need to watch more from Kore-eda.
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The Northman 2022
As a sucker for Hamlet, I was the target audience for a retelling of the Legend of Amleth, the inspiration for Shakespeare’s play. The story is a bit reductive and repetitive, as most ancient myths are, but the art direction in this kept me enraptured the whole time. There were many times the aesthetic reminded me of The Fountain, which delighted me to no end.
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology 2012
Although I don't agree with everything that Slavoj Žižek has to stay, it is hard for me not to love the guy and extend a friendly wipe of the nose and tug of the shirt in solidarity.
And so on and so on.
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Nightcrawler 2014
Sweet Jesus, Jake Gyllenhaal brings it in this film as Louis Bloom. I was completely convinced that he was a sociopath from his gaze that holds for just a little too long, to his highly analytical and fast talking dialogue that just sounds like Bloom is attempting to sound normal, to his love for matriarchal figures that he can manipulate. Actually, scratch that, he is somehow able to manipulate every single person in this film.
It shouldn't be a surprise…
