Roma is a challenging film to watch because of the gut-wrenching reality portrayed on screen. The story follows a young woman named Cleo in her life as a servant to a family. We follow her through hardships and danger as the political unrest in the city surrounding her worsens. My favorite portion of the film is the meticulous details put into the sound design. My favorite scene in the entire film is once the father comes home and he reverses…

À mon âge Je me cache encore pour fumer is a feminist film covering the many paths and lives of the different women in Algeria. My favorite part of the film is the various backgrounds the women have, but that they collaborate in staying in the safe Hamam to unwind and be free from their daily lives. The way the women find their ways to the steam house is different but they are all away from the eyes of men…

Hitchcock's Vertigo is in many ways a film ahead of it's time. With a complex story revolving around two characters falling in love betwixt a staged murder attempt, Hitchcock accomplishes so much in the relationships between characters. Johnny and Madeleine both have unique experiences with death, and are either attracted or frightened to it in different ways. In my opinion, the inclusion of the appeal and fear of death has to do with the title of the film, Vertigo. The…

Playtime is a dry humored mess of fantastical comedy, culminating in a beautiful project that tells the viewer a lot about how the genre of comedy has changed. While most films surrounding comedy in the modern age have explicit jokes surrounding wild scenarios and events, Playtime derives its humor from almost mundane situations at times. Often a simple job interview turns into a 10 minute wild goose chase, having characters fall into almost frustratingly close proximity without finding one another.…