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Favorite films

  • Pulse
  • Crimes of the Future
  • Only Lovers Left Alive
  • Black Christmas

All
  • The Beast

    ★★★★

  • Turistas

    ★★★½

  • It's What's Inside

    ★★★

  • This Much I Know to Be True

    ★★★½

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Pulse

2001

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Ambient noise that has been going on for just long enough to become your default zero reference point for silence, suddenly cuts off to a truer, deeper silence, a silence that is somehow infinitely more intense than just the absence of sound, like your sense of hearing has suddenly been plunged below the threshold into a realm of negative nothingness, and then, while you're still trying to come to with how unbearably loud this silence is, it's suddenly filled…

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The Beast

2023

★★★★ Liked Watched

very arthouse-french (almost exhaustingly so), very contemplative and intriguingly demanding, a richness in text and themes that i haven't seen like this in quite a while

some absolutely wild cinematic choices. and lea seydoux is really good!

It's What's Inside

2024

★★★ Watched

highly obnoxious for a long time until suddenly something interesting happens that'll have u pause and scribble down a math problem to figure out the exact implications - and even after that it stays really confusing in a kind of fun way.

would've been a banger with better characters. and with someone writing who isn't too much of a coward to do something with the gender themes this premise so obviously suggests - it's kind of glaring how this just stubbornly refuses to even look in that general direction.

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The Love Witch

2016

★★ Added

This is a very weird and specific piece of satire. It must be satire, right? ..right??

(Spoiler, no, apparently it's not. At least not really. More like a very bad feminist take? Oof.)

Anyways, the pulpy 70s vibes are off the charts and Samantha Robinson clearly has a blast playing the character and both is very entertaining to watch, so there's that.
It's also very funny, although I was laughing nervously because for most of this I really couldn't figure out if it was genuine or not.

Possession

1981

★★★★ Liked 3

Yes, yes, female autonomy is very scary

--I'm kidding, that's not my take! (Although I think it's in there? Maybe?) I have no idea what raw, feral, psychosexual monstrosity I just watched. This wasn't what I expected it to be at all. I don't think it was anything anyone COULD expect.

I could spend the rest of my night trying to come up with something to say here and still come up empty. Did I like this? Fuck dude, I…