okrc (J.Arturo)

Favorite films

  • Dog on Trial
  • I'm Still Here
  • Mickey 17
  • Armand

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  • DJ Ahmet

    ★★★★½

  • The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

    ★★★★½

  • Daisies

    ★★★★★

  • Twinless

    ★★★★★

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DJ Ahmet

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

Well, my last pick from Sundance CDMX, another film from the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

A coming of age about a forbidden love and its connections through the music. Of course its have some funny moments, specially when the generations collide. (young ald old)

The Second Wild Sheep Chase.

The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

My second pick of Sundance CDMX, the sole Latin American film of the World Cinema Dramatic Section.

I want to read the work of the Argentinian writer Mariana Enríquez, one of the new voices of the Latin American horror. This film is an adaptation of two of her short stories, so I think that this was a good starting point.

A dark coming of age that includes some sorcery and fantastic elements, as well as topics like the Argentinian 2001…

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Lost in Starlight

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

M(a)y Korea Challenge 2025
22-27. Directed by Women (Han Ji-won*)

After the queer animated film The Summer, Han Ji-won came back with this Netflix original film. A love story set in a future time, that despite it's another hallyu-esque film, I enjoyed this one too much, despite it's cheesy style. It seems that it was an improvement on the production.
And with this film I finish this challenge. 감사합니다! 안녕히 가세요!

*: Not listed in the original challenge

Hanalei Bay

2018

★★★★½ Liked 2

What We Talk About When We Talk About Murakami Adaptations

Many people know about Burning, Norwegian Wood and the Drive My Car, but there's uncut gems in this topic (including a short film directed by Carlos Cuarón of The Second Bakery Attack, which I'm interested in watching it), and this film is one of this cases.

Inspired on this tale that is on the collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (but originally published in Japan as part of the collection