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Favourite directors:
1. David Lynch
2. Andrei Tarkovski
3. Pier Paolo Pasolini
4. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Favorite films

  • Mirror
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
  • Nobody Knows
  • Inland Empire

All
  • Afternoons of Solitude

    ★★★

  • The Great Dictator

    ★★★★½

  • Lent

    ★★★★

  • Mamma Roma

    ★★★★½

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Afternoons of Solitude

2024

★★★ Watched

Primeira meia hora: com vontade de sair da sala; segunda meia hora: a querer queimar todas as praças de touros do mundo com todas as minhas forças; terceira meia hora: a apreciar a forma ridícula como os sidemen do toureiro am todo o tempo a lamber-lhe os tomates (literal, nunca vi um filme com tanta bajulação meta gay sobre os tomates de um personagem); e quarta meia hora: a chorar de raiva, desolação e impotência perante o que estava a…

The Great Dictator

1940

★★★★½ Watched

Chaplin a escrever em 1940 o discurso mais essencial para 2025 - ou, a História a repetir-se. 
Also:
“- Strange, and I thought you were an Aryan.
- No, I'm a vegetarian.” <3

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Inland Empire

2006

★★★★★ Rewatched

Rewatching this right after his death, probably one of the most intense experiences I’ve had in a theatre. 

I’ll show you light now, it burns bright forever. No more blue tomorrows. You on high now.

Rest in peace dear David, may there be lots of donuts, cherry pies and damm fine coffee wherever you are now.  

youtu.be/K0pp-wxMaw4?si=1_YQ6vs4bPlH5BBf

Crash

1996

★★★★ Rewatched

“Did you cum?”

A movie that touches (literally) many subjects and materials - prosthetics, mechanics, scars, flesh and metal - in the most direct and unsubtle manner, in what can loosely be described as a bonkers tale about the search for the ultimate orgasm. Still as fascinating as ever, in the way it creates a parallel universe and then grabs the viewers by their balls and puts them right in the center of it. 

This time around, even more details…