Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  Solaris 1972

  

  Neeka B

  scavenger hunt #80 || november 2021
  I love movies about space so we’re going to watch one here.

  incredibly dense, mesmerizing, desolate, abstract, philosophical, confusing, solipsistic, beautiful, cold, and otherworldly.…

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  Hard Boiled 1992

  

  reibureibu ★★★★★ 32

  If there was ever a movie that told you everything you needed to know in its first ten minutes, it's this one. Chow Yun-fat playing clarinet at a jazz club.…

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  La Haine 1995

  

  Priedieus ★★★★★

  Hate breeds hate. Sometimes its impossible to break the circle, thats not justifying its merely understanding at surface level the reality that people are affected by a myriad of different…

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  The Matrix Revolutions 2003

  

  Samcrom ★½

  Subsumed in its own digitized matrix; both the real-world and the simulated one are here shown in the same CGI-obsessed register, so that one bleeds into the other— and not…

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  The Turin Horse 2011

  

  Ayub Nor ★★★★★

  A film that moves at a consistently slow pace (perhaps even slower than Satantango or Werckmeister Harmonies), and containing little to no plot or dialogue, yet I was enthralled all…

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  Spencer 2021

  

  BrandonHabes ★★★★½ 5

  Gilded wallpaper stretches for miles down long, elegant corridors, an opulent dollhouse that resembles a fairytale but feels more like a haunted chamber of imprisonment. Chandeliers, paintings and lavish mirrors…

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  I Am Twenty 1965

  

  Puffin ★★★★½

  Allusions to classic American cinema, a French New Wave energy, a distinctly Soviet aesthetic (at times even resembling the style of Kalatozov and Urusevsky), and a memorable appearance from Andrei…

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  I Am Twenty 1965

  

  V. Lepistö 🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★½

  I can't think many pieces of film that can capture generation as accurately as this one. It never makes us feel that the people born at certain age are victims.…