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  • Simone Barbès or Virtue

    ★★★★

  • Miss and the Doctors

  • Le Litre de lait

    ★★★★

  • Nous sommes tous des cafards

    ★★★★

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Le Litre de lait

2006

★★★★ Liked 2

I have to say that what came to mind as I was watching this, is that, when some of my peers here say that _Bringing Up Baby_ can be stressful or sick, this is something like the film they had in mind. (I'm on Biette's team regarding that film, there's simply not an unhappy, unfunny moment, it's comical all the time.) But this contrapuntal equilibrium between Gilles (Lucas Harari) and Anne (Claire Bouanich) is the sort equilibrium that Hawks' so expertly mastered in his masterpiece.

Drugstore Romance

1979

★★★★★ Liked 1

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

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I Saw the TV Glow

2024

Watched

First of all this applies equally here.

Second, «The greatest history is the history of the cinema. (...) I say that it’s the greatest history because it can project. Other histories can only reduce themselves. My goal, then, alas (laughter), is like that little poem by Brecht: “I examine my project carefully: it’s unrealizable.” Because it can only be done on TV, which reduces. Or which projects you, the viewer, bur then you lose consciousness, you’re rejected. Whereas in cinema,…

a Dream once lost among Sorrow and Song

2025

6

Assari to
   Haru wa ki ni keri
      Asagi-zora.

[Pure simplicity
Marks the arrival of spring —
A pale yellow sky.]

— Issa [Transl. Daniel C. Buchanan]

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