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  El Conde 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Sep 2023

  A sumptuous feast for the eyes, and a pretty inventive satire but it feels like it’s searching for a heart and and a soul, only for them to be spinning in a blender. A filmmaker that fascinates me with Spencer remaining my personal favourite of his visions.

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  Saboteur 1942

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Sep 2023

  Another solid revisit. Although there’s some preposterous elements to the whole affair, it’s never less credible in the hands of Hitch. Bloody enjoyable!

Popular reviews

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  Caché 2005

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 May 2014 33

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

  “I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's the same with this film - if 300 people are in a cinema watching it, they will all see a different film, so in a way there are thousands of different versions of "Caché (Hidden)". The point being that, despite what TV shows us, and what the news stories tell us, there is never just one truth, there is only personal truth.”…

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  Where Is the Friend's House? 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Jun 2014 12

  Grandfather's Friend:''What I mean to say is, suppose the kid did nothing wrong. What would you do? What then?''
  Grandfather:''I'd find an excuse and give him a beating every other week. So he wouldn't forget.''

  Often it's the smallest and simplest observations on life that are the most emotionally resonant and impactful, as is the case with Abbas Kiarostami's 1987 film Where Is the Friend's Home?, where we see immense compassion and loyalty from a child who navigates a world…