I haven't had this refreshing feeling after a film since I rewatched Inherent Vice last year when news were showing nothing but shit. It's like feeling cold or otherwise dirty and going to warm sauna after a hard day and then coming out, taking something to drink and feel like world makes sense even if it is only for few seconds until it starts to wear off. This is for me the only way to describe Wild at Heart -…
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Nomad 1982
It's just so absurd feeling to listen all day long the terrifying news from ignorance towards creeping climate change that decides the fate of humanity and wonder about one's mortality and then stumble upon a film that's been on your watch list for years and simply stare at it in awe. Nomad is a revelation, absurd and hard to put into words, but so goddamn beautiful. At points it is pure cinematic bliss and aesthetic pleasure, at points a single…
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Sem Essa, Aranha 1970
Great iconoclastic assault on the (bourgeois) senses as expected from Sganzerla. I love how one or several elements (like Maria Gladys constantly yelling "I'm hungry!") are always pulling the film in another direction from what initially would seem the image's central focus. Very much prefer this to The Red Light Bandit but I feel I was too harsh on it when I saw it.
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Cousin Angelica 1974
Defining work for Saura: once again, he is interested in mixing things up to create unique cinematic meditations on family, sexuality, class, and war. He jumps between eras without much explanation, there are three Angelicas played by two actors, in an unforgettable double-role José Luis López Vázquez plays the protagonist Luis both as a child and as an adult, then there is of course mixing of dreams, trauma, and reality when surreal visions invade the life of the protagonist.
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A Moment of Innocence 1996
After watching this film, I realized I'm never going to be film critic or scholar. This beautiful feeling that I'm feeling cannot be put to words. I've realized that the greatest films are something about what you can write and write, try to open them and their beauty, try to ease your burden and wonderment but you simply can't put them to words. I've loved film theory but after a film like this, I can't help but to pretty much…
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Claire's Knee 1970
Some say that women are always over-analyzing everything. Well, men are trying to justify everything they do (especially their desires) with the most idiotic and weirdest (to the point where they don't make sense) justification. For a while I watched the film without realizing anything what was going on. Conversations. Well, they are French. At some points I started thinking about how creepy these situations actually were. It wasn't until the last conversations between Jerome and Aurora that I realized…
