ah, fortune

ah, fortune

Favorite films

  • Annie Hall
  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
  • Perfect Blue
  • Atlantics

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  • The Double Life of Véronique

    ★★★★

  • Call of My Life

    ★★½

  • Stuart: A Life Backwards

    ★★★★★

  • Saute ma ville

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Stuart: A Life Backwards
★★★★★ Liked Watched

and hence, … therefore, … furthermore …

crushing.

and such an all-timer performance from Tom Hardy. WHAT

(bless Idenkimifah for the rec.)

more: i think it’s disappointing too (for the industry, not the actors) that Hardy & Cumberbatch went on to do more of blockbusters than roles like this one

also it’s either the shot-reverse shots here were so good or i somehow noticed them more

hmm, what else?

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Wild Strawberries
★★★★ Watched

feels like a surrealist painting of (what makes) the meaning of a man’s life; his memories, present life and dreams the brushstrokes, overlapping one another, imbricating, and rendering the viewer as the final arbiter of this meaning.

Y Tu Mamá También
★★★★★ Liked Watched

of course the first thing i’m talking about is the camera: so ridiculously unpredictable & sentient. a mind of its own, really. cinéma vérité in a mash-up with stilted scenes & a stupid range of shots — from wide to cowboy to pan to static to tracking and establishing; it’s mayhem.

then there’s the narrator, man. their account percusses you like words out of a novel; the depth of it, the omniscience, reflections, & stream-of-consciousness approach. then there’s how they dabble into the lives…