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Favorite films

  • The Shining
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • 8½
  • Greed

All
  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★

  • The End

    ★★★

  • Black Souls

    ★★★½

  • An Overcooked Steak

    ★★★½

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The Phoenician Scheme

2025

★★★ Watched

I find out I prefer when Wes Anderson chooses a lower number of main characters - I preferred this to the previous two. Still, he has a potential to be fool and energetic but he has created too much a canon to be like that and watching his new films is like going to visit a nice old aunt that  you’re happy to see just once every year. I still need to figure out if he has something to say about great billionaire entrepreneurs of our present but I argue he doesn’t give a damn about reality.

The End

2024

★★★ Watched

I’m going to say THAT pseudo-critical bullshit. Here it comes: I guess that the only way I can explain to myself this strange middle way between classical musical and Brechtian estrangement which is the pace of The End is that Oppenheimer really prefers to make a documentary about the acting of his actors more than to try to believe a drama he doesn’t really seem to care about. All the actors here act and sing in the context of a…

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Compartment No. 6

2021

★★★ 10

How to ruin a party: invite a guy with a guitar

Parthenope

2024

★★★ 4

Didn’t expect the Princess Leia/Jabba the Hutt moment