Favorite films

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  Before Midnight 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Nov 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Ultimately, the whole trilogy is about how Jesse and Celine are going from viewing love idealistically, where everything is perfect yet non-cliche, to accepting the conservative ideas of love where we eventually get tired of and too used to partner’s mannerisms/flaws, we shouldn’t so easily give up on each other and instead should be working hard on improving our relationships and in arguments we should aim at saving our marriage first rather than trying to prove our partner how dead…

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  Do the Right Thing 1989

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 08 Nov 2023

  Holy shit that ending… The fact that it ended up being prophetic is both a good and a bad thing:
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  Good: Spike Lee was a Visionary with capital V when he made this movie and understood the nuances of politics he wanted to portray to a tee.
  Bad: 34 years have passed since «Do The Right Thing» release and we as a society haven’t done enough to finally solve systematic racism and discrimination once and for all.
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Recent reviews

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  The Man in Constant Sorrow 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2023 2

  That was so impressive. Rafael is not only the most obsessed watcher of movies that I have encountered on LB (wish I had as much dexterity and motivation as he to watch 4 movies every single day and also having a positive rating curve lol), but also a guy who has some decent filmmaking chops with potential.
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  Very clearly Bergman-coded movie with powerful acting, solid substance, cool idea and great b&w cinematography with jaw-dropping lighting. The only thing that brings it down for me is that some dialogues felt way too cliche and derivative, really put me off at times.

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  Persona 1966

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Dec 2023

  Now we’re talking, now I understood it!
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  That was monumental from all front. Crafted to the absolute perfection, experimental and within 84 min it manages to be so complex and thematically dense. Bergman was making movies almost every single year in 50s/60s and somehow he always found ways to make them almost consistently profound and masterful. Wish I had as much wisdom as him. The man was simply born to be a filmmaker and it shows.
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  This’s a great…

Popular reviews

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  Blonde 2022

  ½ Watched 09 Sep 2022 23

  Venice 2022 #20

  A catastrophic failure of enormous proportions. Exploitative, disgusting, overly sexualized, disrespectful and distasteful dumpster fire and a huge spit on Monroe‘s grave with a power of raining storm. A perfect example of when you aim to be feminist, but end up being horribly misogynistic and brutally male-gazy. Andrew Dominik‘s directing is a disjointed mess of aimless overstylization, the storytelling is a dramatically bankrupt misery porn and Ana De Armas gives such an outrageously mopping and one-note performance that…

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  Spencer 2021

  ★★★★ Rewatched 27 Nov 2021 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Surprisingly holds up pretty well enough on rewatch. I gained the exact same feelings as from my first watch + some scenes (soup, game with kids, church and the whole abandoned house/Crucifix sequence) became more effective and I grasped some new details. But overall this’s a strong 8,5/10 from both watches. Easily better than «Jackie» in every way imaginable: better music score, better lead performance, better craft in general and the story is more focused, unconventional and emotionally/thematically fleshed out.…